Vigée-Lebrun, 1755-1842 : her life, works, and friendships : with a catalogue raisonné of the artist's pictures (1915)
Helm, W. H. (William Henry), 1860-1936, Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842 · Boston : Small, Maynard · leaf 324
ache huge, for she had become dreadfully stout.She said to me, with tears in her eyes, that she was deeply to be pitied;that she had lost in Sir William a friend, a father, and that she would neverbe able to console herself. I admit that her grief made little impressionon me ; for I fancied I could… … THE PRINCE OF WALES, AFTERWARDS GEORGE IV, 1S05 148] LADY HAMILTONS ATTITUDES 149 pieces of music on my piano, she began to sing one of the airs which she found there. It is well known that Lord Nelson, when at Naples, had become verymuch in love with her ; she had continued a very tender…
