1839. John Henry Robinson (age 43). Stipple engraving of Clementina Augusta Wellington Child-Villiers (age 15).

Adeline Horsey Recollections. From Badminton we went on a visit to Lord Forester at Willey Park, Shropshire, where I met [her mother] Lady Jersey (age 56) and her daughter, Lady Clementina Villiers (age 18).

Lady Jersey was the greatest grande dame in London Society, and her house in Berkeley Square, Mayfair was the centre of the Tory party. She knew all the artistic and literary celebrities of the day, and her popularity was most remarkable. Lady Clementina Villiers (age 18) was a beautiful and accomplished girl, and everybody loved her. Once when some one said to her [her father] father (age 68) that "no one was perfect", Lord Jersey (age 68) replied: "There is one who is perfect - there is Clementina (age 18)". Many suitors proposed for her, a most persistent one being the Duke d'Ossuna, a grandee of Spain, and an immensely rich man. He must have been deeply in love with the beautiful English girl, for he used to keep many drawings and portraits of Lady Clementina in his palace at Madrid.

"Those whom the gods love die young", and so it was with Clementina Villiers; she was taken ill during a visit to Germany with her mother and only returned to England to die.

Her portraits were in all the "Books of Beauty" of the day, but although they faithfully portray her perfect features, they cannot convey the beauty of colour and changing expression that were her greatest charms.

1849. Richard James Lane (age 48). Stipple engraving of Clementina Augusta Wellington Child-Villiers (age 25).

1850. William Henry Mote (age 47). Stipple engraving of Clementina Augusta Wellington Child-Villiers (age 26).

Before 1858. Franz Xaver Winterhalter (age 52). Portrait of Clementina Augusta Wellington Child-Villiers (age 33).