According to her article in thepeerage, "On 30 November 1801 Lady Stafford writes to her son Granville 'I do not wonder at your liking Lady Spencer; all Men formerly liked her, and she was most captivating and pleasing ... She, somehow or another, has the Art of leading, drawing, or seducing People into right Ways.'" Her daughter, also named Georgiana, would become the famous Duchess of Devonshire.
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ca. 1555 Caterina de' Medici by ? (Galleria degli Uffizi - Firenze, Toscana, Italy)
Maria Francisca Pignatelli and Gonzaga, Duchess of Medinaceli by Anton Raphael Mengs (location unknown to gogm)
1759 Georgiana, Countess Spencer, nee Poyntz, and her daughter by Sir Joshua Reynolds (Spencer Collection - Althorp, Northamptonshire, UK)
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