John Dean engraved The Met's painting in mezzotint in 1779. An oval portrait by Gainsborough of Grace Elliott (Frick Collection, New York), shown at the Royal Academy in 1782, is a more seductive and private image and may have been commissioned by the Prince of Wales. The present portrait was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1778 and was almost undoubtedly commissioned by Cholmondeley, in whose family it descended for more than a century. She lived in Paris through the Terror and described her experiences in fanciful terms in a manuscript titled Journal of My Life during the French Revolution, published in 1859. Georgiana remained with the Cholmondeleys, while in 1786 Grace settled more or less permanently in France, becoming the sometime companion of the duc d’Orléans, Philippe Égalité. In 1782 Grace gave birth to a child, Georgiana (The Met 15.30.38), who is thought to have been fathered either by the Earl of Cholmondeley or, as her mother claimed, by the Prince of Wales. In 1774, her husband applied for a divorce, presenting evidence of her elopement with a young, married Irish peer the divorce was granted two years later. Reportedly she was seventeen when she married the thirty-five-year-old Dr.
She may have attended a convent school in France or Flanders and then joined her father, the Scottish advocate Hew Dalrymple, in London. Her parents had separated during her infancy, and her mother died while she was still a child. Elliott and was the divorced wife of the Scottish physician Dr. The sitter, born Grace Dalrymple, styled herself Mrs.
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