Richard Brompton, high-living society portraitist, died in 1882 in St. Petersburg where he was working for Catherine II who rescued him from debt problems with the British courts.
From bbc.co.
Lady Susannah wears a luxuriously casual dress and a fur-lined velvet wrap in this Brompton portrait.
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