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Jane Fortescue Seymour Coleridge
Self-portrait when Seventeen, 1842
Lady Jane Coleridge was a member of the Coleridge family, a prominent English family who made lasting intellectual, artistic, and literary contributions to the country's heritage. Coleridge exhibited fifteen works at the Royal Academy between 1864 and 1878. This self-portrait demonstrates a high level of skill by a woman who, though an amateur by definition, had obvious access to a level of training befitting her aristocratic background. |