Violet Lindsay Manners, Duchess of Rutland (7 March 1856 – 22 December 1937) was a British artist and noblewoman.
She was the second daughter of Charles Hugh Lindsay (1816–1889, son of the twenty-fourth Earl of Crawford, a soldier and a courtier) and Emilia Anne Browne (d. 1873, the daughter of the dean of Lismore). Violet had four brothers and two sisters, though all but two of these siblings (except two of the brothers) died in infancy or child...
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Violet Lindsay Manners, Duchess of Rutland (7 March 1856 – 22 December 1937) was a British artist and noblewoman.
She was the second daughter of Charles Hugh Lindsay (1816–1889, son of the twenty-fourth Earl of Crawford, a soldier and a courtier) and Emilia Anne Browne (d. 1873, the daughter of the dean of Lismore). Violet had four brothers and two sisters, though all but two of these siblings (except two of the brothers) died in infancy or childhood, and had the aesthete Sir Coutts Lindsay as a distant cousin.
The first signs of Lindsay's artistic talent surfaced in her private education. Her family supported her gifts, underwriting a lengthy visit to Italy. However, she never received any formal training.
Violet was one of the first exhibitors of both drawings (of the men and women of her social circle, in silver-point or pencil) and sculptures at Sir Coutts' new Grosvenor Gallery (opened by him in 1877), and continued to exhibit extensively her whole life at all the major British...
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