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 252
utely intolerable noises of any kind to makeher nights hideous. There having set up her easel, she speedily found herselfin the full tide of portrait-painting. The first sitter she mentions was Emma, Lady Hamilton, as a Bacchante(Messrs. Thomas Agnew & Sons) ?rt Roir intelligciica Kauffman -Ith… … A WONDERFUL SINGER in a very pretty child of sixteen, Miss Pitt, a daughter of Lord Camelford,whom she represents as Hebe, sitting in a cloud, and holding a drinking-cup to an eagle. The eagle which sat for this picture, and whichbelonged to Cardinal de Bernis, gave the artist a great fright.…
