Hamilton, Emma Lady
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Image source
Wikimedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George_Romney_-_Emma_Hart_in_a_Straw_Hat.jpg
Basic data
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Lyon, Amy Birth Name
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April 26, 1765 in Ness bei Great Neston
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†January 15, 1815 in Calais
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Neapel, London
Iconography
.jpg "Lady Hamilton as Muse (1791), by Angelika Kauffmann (Source: Wikimedia)")
.png "Emma performing the \"Attitudes\", caricatured by Thomas Rowlandson, mid-1810s (Source: Wikimedia)")
!['Lady Hamilton as the Persian Sibyl', 1792, by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, commissioned by the Duc de Brissac and painted in Naples, a copy of which was sent to Sir William. This portrait gained great fame wherever it was displayed, and was instrumental in the rise of Le Brun's career as a portrait artist.[8]102, 104, 124, 129 (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elisabeth_Vig%C3%A9e-Lebrun_-_Lady_Hamilton_as_the_Persian_Sibyl.jpg "'Lady Hamilton as the Persian Sibyl', 1792, by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, commissioned by the Duc de Brissac and painted in Naples, a copy of which was sent to Sir William. This portrait gained great fame wherever it was displayed, and was instrumental in the rise of Le Brun's career as a portrait artist.[8]102, 104, 124, 129 (Source: Wikimedia)")
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Biographical information from the WeGA
Geliebte bzw. ab 1791 Ehefrau von Lord William Hamilton (1730–1803), 1798 bis 1805 Geliebte von Lord Horatio Nelson (1758–1805)
