Fashion from the era of the French Revolution/ Empire/British Regency Period went from columnar skirts hanging from high waistlines in republican style back to full skirts with vee waistlines so a characteristic silhouette had evolved when Victoria became Queen in 1837. The silhouette swelled with the arrival of the cage crinoline around 1857 and then faded to another shape defined by the bustle around 1870, the year the Second Empire fell.
There were a number of eminent Ladies from this time period, for reasons ranging from beauty to literary achievement, who are the subjects of Subalbums in this Album.

1840 Countess Marie Jaubert, née Boigues (1805-1864) by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (National Gallery of Canada - Ottawa, Canada)

1860 Lady Caroline Towneley with Two of Her Daughters, Caroline and Emily (copy after Francis Grant) by George Frederick Clarke (Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum - Towneley Park, Burnley, Lancashire UK)

1837 Lady Louisa Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (Double Duchess) engraved by W. H. Mote from an original painting by Alfred Edward Chalon

1849 (publication date) Lady Flora Hastings posthumous (by and published by William Finden, by and published by Edward Francis Finden, printed by McQueen (Macqueen), after E. Hawkins stipple engraving)

1838 Mrs. Wilson, née Jemima Lea, Lady Mayoress by Charles Martin (City of London Corporation - London UK)

1838 Freifrau von Bernus by Philipp Velt (Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie (Städel) - Frankfurt am Main, Hesse Germany)

1838 Prinzessin Leonora Radziwill (Sofja Urusow) by Josef Kriehuber (Albertina Museum - Wien, Austria)

1838 Mathilde Wilhelmine Louise von Stürler-Bötticher by Julius Schoppe (Jegenstorf Castle - Jegenstorf, Kanton Bern, Switzerland)

1838 Anne Berthier Wittelsbach, comtesse de Plaisance la comtesse était la fille unique du Maréchal Berthier et de Marie Elizabeth in Bayern, prince et princesse de Wagram by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (auctioned by Sotheby's)

Lady Blanche Georgiana Howard, Duchess of Devonshire by John Lucas (Hardwick Hall - Doe Lea, Chesterfield, Derbyshire UK)

1840 Blanche Georgiana Howard (1812-40); posthumous portrait in the dress worn at the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert by John Lucas (Chatsworth House - Bakewell, Derbyshire UK)

1839 Marie Felicitas Walpurga Huberta, Baronin von Fürstenberg-Herdringen zu Mussendorf by Franz Ittenbach (Schloss Wehrden - Beverungen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)

1849 (publication date) Helen Selina (née Sheridan), Countess of Gifford (formerly Lady Dufferin and Claneboye)

Lady with flowers, Baroness Bertha Maria Marenholtz-Bülow (Baroness Bülow) by Leopold Fischer (Leon Wilnitsky)

Isabella Caroline Ellison, Lady Vernon, by John Lucas (Sudbury Hall - Sudbury, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, UK)

Miss St. John, daughter of Henry, 4th Viscount Bollinbroke (Lydiard House - Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, UK)

1840 Principessa Altieri by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Landesmuseum - Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)

1840 Charlotte, Lady Malcolm (1789-1867), née Isabella Charlotte Campbell, by Sir Francis Grant (auctioned by Tennants)

ca. 1840 Therese Countess Sternberg, née Stadion by Alois von Anreiter (Bomann Museum, Tansey Collection of Miniatures - Celle, Niedersachsen Germany)

1840 (published) Caroline Amelia Gordon-Lennox, Countess of Bessborough, 1819 - 1890. 2nd wife of J.G.B. Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough by William Henry Mote (National Galleries of Scotland - Edinburgh, UK)

Lady, thought to be Clementine Metternich, three-quarter length, holding a sprig of flowers by follower of Franz Xaver Winterhalter (auctioned by Bonhams)

ca. 1835-1845 Lady Laura Cecilia Parker (1809–1883), Countess of Antrim by ? (Hinton Ampner - Bramdean, Hampshire, UK)

Mary (Baillie ?), Lady Haddo and Countess of Aberdeen by Margaret Sarah Carpenter (Haddo House - Methlick, Ellon, Aberdeenshire, UK)

1841 Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg, née Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, by Théodore Chassériau (Metropoltan Museum)

1841 Comtesse Rosalie Duchâtel (1817-1878), née Mlle Paulée, with her son by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (private collection)

1841 (published) Elizabeth Catherine Gubbins, Viscountess St Albans by John Hayter (National Galleries of Scotland - Edinburgh, UK)

1841 (?) Countess Hélène Esterházy, née Countess Bezobrazov by Moritz Michael Daffinger (Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City, New York USA)

1842 Marie-Amélie, Queen of the French (1782-1866), née Princess of Bourbon & Two Sicilies by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Versailles)

1842 Marie-Marguerite Foucher, marquise de Circé, sœur du peintre Léopold Burthe by Amaury Duval (location ?)

1842 Miss Margaret Louis Gordon Hay later Baronne Gudin (misidentification?) by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (location unknown to gogm)

by 1876 Fürstin Leopoldine Karoline Palffy, née Gräfin Kaunitz-Rietberg by Josef Kriehuber (Dorotheum)

1843 Friederike Freiin Gumppenberg by Joseph Karl Stieler (Schönheitengallerie, Schloß Nymphenburg - München, Germany)

1843 Princess Karoline von Oettingen-Wallerstein by Joseph Stieler (Schönheitengallerie, Schloß Nymphenburg, München Germany)

1843 Archduchess Dorothea, third wife of archduke Joseph Palatine of Hungary by ? (auctioned by Dorotheum)

1849 Comtesse Charles d'Agoult, née Marie de Flavigny, and Her Daughter Claire d'Agoult by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (private collection)

1844 Lady Emilie Milbanke by Joseph Karl Stieler (Schönheitengallerie, Schloß Nymphenburg, München Germany)

1844 Comtesse Caroline de Vergès née Caroline Brochant de Villliers (1806-1860) by François Louis Dejuinne (Tajan)

1845 Vicomtesse Othenin d'Haussonville, née Louise-Albertine de Broglie by Jean Auguste Dominque Ingres (Frick Collection, New York City)

1845 Alexandra Amalie von Bayern by Joseph Karl Stieler (Schönheitengallerie, Schloß Nymphenburg - München, Bayern, Germany)

ca. 1845 Lady from family of Counts von Hoensbroech by Franz Schrotzberg (for sale by Boris Wilnitsky)

Anna Constantia (née Beresford), Lady Thynne and Selina and Emily Thynne by Richard James Lane (National Portrait Gallery - London UK)

Comtesse Pastré, née Céline de Beaulaincourt by Ernest Antoine Auguste Hébert (Musée Hébert - Paris France)

Susanna Arethusa Gibson, née Cullum (1814–1885), society hostess and political activist by Spiridione Gambardella (St Edmundsbury Museums - St Edmundsbury, Suffolk UK)

1846 Katherine Mary Webb Palmer (later Lady Lambert) by Fanny Geefs (Newstead Abbey - Nottingham, East Midlands UK)

Reventlow sisters, Countesses Hilda Sophie Charlotte in pink and Malvina Anny Louise in white by August Heinrich Georg Schiøtt (auctioned by Stockholms Auktionsverk)

ca. 1847 Lady Alexandrina Octavia Maria Vane (1823–1874), Countess of Portarlington by James Godsell Middleton (Mount Stewart - Newtownlands, County Down, Northern Ireland)

Lady Mary Catherine Sackville-West (d.1900), Countess of Derby by Jane Hawkins after James Rannie Swinton (Hughenden Manor - High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK)

Lady Margaret Kennedy (1800-1889) by Orazio de Manara (Hardwick Hall - Doe Lea, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, UK)

1848 Baronne James de Rothschild, nee Betty von Rothschild by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (private collection)

Ann Margaret Forbes Leslie, wife of Alexander Forbes Irvine, 20th Laird of Drum by John Graham-Gilbert (Drum Castle, Garden & Estate - Drumoak, Aberdeenshire, UK)

1849 Viscountess Canning, née Hon. Charlotte Stewart de Rothesay by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (private collection)

1849 Comtesse de Bellefonds by Jean-Hégésippe Vetter (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux - Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France)

1849 Margaret Loetitia, née Bushby, from Kirkmichael, Dumfries, wife of Sir Thomas Burch Western by Richard Buckner (Hylands House, Hylands Park - Chelmsford, Essex, UK)

ca. 1850 Archduchess Marie Karoline (was at Boris Wilnitsky, another copy at Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)

1851 Euphemia Effie Chalmers, née Gray, Lady Millais by Thomas Richmond (National Portrait Gallery, London)

ca. 1851 Elizabeth Georgina Campbell, Duchess of Argyll with her son by William Henry Mote after William Salter Herrick (National Portrait Gallery - London, UK)

1857 Elizabeth Georgina Campbell, née Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, by Francis Holl, after James Rannie Swinton (National Portrait Gallery - London, UK)

1850 Countess of Beaussier, née Marie Pauline Galichon, by Édouard-Louis Dubufe (Musée des Ursulines, Mâcon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)

ca. 1850 Lady Frederick Cavendish Bentinck by George Frederick Watts (Northampton Museums & Art Gallery - Northampton UK)

1850 Selina, Lady Fitzwygram, née Hayes, seated in an armchair, in a blue dress with a black lace shawl and lace headdress, holding a fan by Margaret Sarah Carpenter (auctioned by Christie's)

1850 Lady Constance Leveson-Gower, later Duchess of Westminster by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Royal Collection)

1851-1853 Princesse Albert de Broglie, née Joséphine-Eléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (Metropolitan Museum)

1851 Baronne Hottinguer (also called Bartholdy), née Caroline Delessert by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (auctioned by Sotheby's)

Mary, 7th Countess of Sandwich by Henry Richard Graves (Hinchingbrooke House - Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire UK)

1853 Cecylii Lubomirskiej by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu - Wrocław, Województwo dolnośląskie, Poland)

1853 Elzbieta Branicka, Countess Krasinska and her Children by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (private collection)

ca. 1857 Countess Elzbieta Krasinska (1820-1876), née Countess Branicka by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie - Warsawa Poland)

ca. 1864 Robe a été portée par la Duchesse de Cadore by ? (Galliera musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris - Paris France) Photo - P. Ladet and C. Pignol front quarter and back quarter

ca. 1854 Clothilde Gräfin von Wylich und Lottum (1809-1894), née Gräfin und Herrin von und zu Putbus by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (auctioned by Sotheby's)

1850s Princess Catherine Dadiani by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Dadiani Palace State History & Architecture Museum, Zugdidi, Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region Georgia)

SAR La Princesa Maria Carolina de Borbón dos Sicilias, Condesa de Montemolín by ? (location unknown to gogm)

1856 Grand Duchess Auguste of Reuss-Kostritz Archduchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin by Friedrich von Kaulbach (location unknown to gogm)

1856 Comtesse Anne Ducos, née Mlle Joly by Franz Xavier Winterhalter (Château de Compiègne, Compiègne)

ca. 1856 Lady possibly Mrs. Edmund Peel, possibly née Maria Frances Knighton Chadwick, by Sir Francis Grant (Tate Gallery - London, UK)

Etude pour le portrait de la marquise de l'Aigle by Ernest Antoine Auguste Hébert (Musée d'Orsay - Paris France)

Photo of the younger three daughters of Duchess of Berry Carolina - Clementina, Francesca and Maria Isabella Lucchesi Palli

1858 Comtesse Sauvigny, née Marie Alice Singher by Auguste Pichon (Musée des Augustins, Toulouse) - autoleveled

1858 Wanda, Fürstin von und zu Putbus (1837-1867), née Freiin von Veltheim-Bartensleben by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (auctioned by Sotheby's)

ca. 1858 Royal Princess Margarethe Caroline of Saxony, first wife of Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria by Franz Schrotzberg (location ?)

Their Royal Highnesses Princess Maria Pia of Savoy and her sister, Princess Clotilde of Savoy visiting the tomb of their mother, Queen Adelaide of Sardinia by ? (location ?)

SUBALBUM: Princess Royal Victoria and Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louise - Queen Victoria's older daughters

1859 Louisa Anne (née Stuart), Marchioness of Waterford by Sir Francis Grant (National Portrait Gallery, London)

1859 Charlotte Bonaparte daughter of Zénaïde Bonaparte, Comtesse Pietro Primoli de Foglio (1832-1901), with her son by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

Lady Aubrey-Fletcher, neé Agnes Wilson, seated half-length, in a white blouse, with a spaniel in her arms by Richard Buckner (auctioned by Christie's)

1858 or 1860 Mme Wienczyslawa Juriewicz, née Mlle Barszczewska by Franz Xavier Winterhalter (private collection)

1860 Mme. Wienczyslawa Juriewicz, née Mlle Barszczewska by Franz Xavier Winterhalter (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

1860s Her Imperial Highness Princess Wilhelm of Baden (1841-1914) née Her Imperial Highness Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg by ?

1860 Carmen Aguado, duchesse de Montmorency by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon - Versailles, Île-de-France, France)

1860 Carmen Aguado, duchesse de Montmorency by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon - Versailles, Île-de-France, France) out take

Princess Mihailo Obrenovic, née Countess Julia Hunyady von Kéthely married on 1 August 1853 by André Disdéri

ca. 1860 Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (1802-1878) and his family (Sophie, Franz Joseph with Elisabeth, Rudolf and Gisela, Maximilian with Charlotte, Karl Ludwig, Ludwig Viktor) by Ludwig Angerer

1860s Caroline, née Vansittart, Lady Vaux of Harrowden by Mayer Brothers (National Portrait Gallery - London, UK)

ca. 1860 Princess Mary Adelaide and Lady Katherine Grey Coke by Lord Otho Fitzgerald (Royal Collection)

Lady Elizabeth Gilstrap (1822–1891) by Richard Buckner (Newark Town Council - Newark, Nottinghamshire UK)

1861 Marii Sawiczewskiej by Leopold Löffler (lwowska Galeria Obrazów, Lviv Ukrania - claimed stolen from Poland)

1861 (22 July) Countess of Lincoln Henrietta Adela Pelham Clinton, nee Hope by Camille Silvy Paul Frecker

1861 (14 August) Hon. Anna Maria Louisa Barnewall daughter of Margaret Randalina, née Roche by Camille Silvy

1861 (14 August) Hon. Anna Maria Louisa Barnewall daughter of Margaret Randalina, née Roche by Camille Silvy

1861 (Anna Friderica) Wilhelmina von Hallwyl by Mathias Hansen (Hallwylska museet - Stockholm Sweden)

1863 (Anna Friderica) Wilhelmina von Hallwyl by Maria (Christina) Röhl (Hallwylska museet - Stockholm Sweden)

1865 (Anna Friderica) Wilhelmina von Hallwyl, b Kempe by Charles) Edouard Boutibonne (Hallwylska museet - Stockholm Sweden)

White cotton dress owned by (Anna Friderica) Wilhelmina von Hallwyl, b Kempe (Hallwylska museet - Stockholm Sweden)

Frances Anne Spencer-Churchill, née Vane, Duchess of Marlborough (Sir Winston Churchill's grandmother)

1862 Lady Margaret Beaumont, née de Burgh, and her Daughter by George Frederick Watts (private collection)

1862 Jeanne Detourbay, future comtesse de Loynes by Eugene Emmanuel Amaury-Duval (Musée d'Orsay) detail-enhanced

Lady Mary Stanhope, later Lygon, Countess Beauchamp by Camille Silvy (National Portrait Gallery - London, UK)

Contessa Giulia Fabbricotti by Alessandro Ossani (Galleria d'Arte Moderna - Firenze, Toscana, Italy)

1863 Leonie, Baroness von Kellersperg, neé Countess and Mistress zu Schärffenberg by Karl Martin Ebersberg (auctioned by Dorotheum)

ca. 1863 Maria Liddell Phipps, Dowger Marchioness of Normanby, English Albumen Carte de Visite by Fratelli Alinari, Firenze

"ca. 1857" Elisabeth de La Croix de Castries, la maréchale de Mac Mahon by Sergei Lvovich Levitsky (Musée d'Orsay - Paris France)

1863 Comtesse Adolphe de Rougé, née Marie de Saint-Georges de Vérac by Charles Gomien (location unknown to gogm)

1864 Countess Natalia Alexandrovna of Merenberg, née Pushkina by Franz Xaver Winterhalter workshop (location unknown to gogm)

1864 or 1868 Christine Freifrau von Schönberg by Ferdinand von Rayski (Alte Nationalgalerie - Berlin Germany)

1865 Countess Marie Branicka de Bialacerkiew by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Pennsylvania)

1865 Le marquis et la marquise de Miramon et leurs enfants by Jacques Joseph Tissot (Musée d'Orsay - Paris France)

Lady Augusta Catherine Gordon-Lennox, married His Highness Prince Wilhelm August Eduard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

1901 Princess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar Duke of Richmond and Lennox, Lady Augusta Catherine Gordon-Lennox

1860s Emma Eliza Stafford-Jerningham (née Gerard), Lady Stafford by Ferrando (National Portrait Gallery - London, UK)

1870 Geraldine Georgiana Mary Anson (1834 or 1844–1927), Marchioness of Bristol by Henry Richard Graves (The Rotunda, Ickworth - Horringer, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK)

1866 Marquise de Miramon, née Thérèse Feuillant by Jacques Joseph Tissot (Getty Museum - Los Angeles, California, USA)

1867 Fête officielle au palais des Tuileries pendant l'Exposition universelle by Henri Charles Antoine Baron (Musée national du château de Compiègne - Compiègne, Picardie, France)

1867 Une soirée aux Tuileries by Charles Antoine (Musée national du château de Compiègne - Compiègne, Picardie, France) detail of group on balcony

1867 Fête officielle au palais des Tuileries pendant l'Exposition universelle by Henri Charles Antoine Baron (Musée national du château de Compiègne - Compiègne, Picardie, France) Group on floor

1867 Lady Adolphus Vane-Tempest, born Lady Susan Charlotte Catherine Pelham-Clinton by Disdéri (National Portrait Gallery - London, UK)

1867 Emily Jane Wodehouse, Lady Newton by Attilio Baccani (Lyme Park - Disley, Stockport, Cheshire, UK)

Gertrude Murray (Coke), Countess of Dunmore (1847 - 1943) by Richard Buckner (Collection of the Earl of Leicester - Holkham Hall, Norfolk, UK)

"1857-1865" Princesse Mavrocardato née Sina, soeur de la Duchesse de Castries by Sergei Lvovich Levitsky (Musée d'Orsay - Paris France)

1860-1865 "Favorite of the Empress” cage crinoline UK (probably), (Victoria and Albert Museum -London UK)

1868 Czarina Maria Feodorovna and her sister Alexandra, Princess of Wales by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (auctioned by Christie's)

Charlotte Crawshay by Alexander Bassano (Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery - Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan, UK)
