
Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Provenance
Mrs Farnsworth
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 12 March 1980, lot 153
An actress at the Palais Royal, Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland was the mistress of Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842), the 1st Duke of Wellington's elder brother. After having three sons and two daughters they later married in 1794. Wellesley moved her to London, where Hyacinthe was generally miserable, as she never learned English and was scorned by high society.