The Sheridan Sisters, or "Three Graces.- English School (19th century) Portrait of Three Women, [c. 1830s]

The Sheridan Sisters, or "Three Graces".- English School (19th century) Portrait of Three Women, traditionally understood to be The Honourable Mrs Caroline Norton and Her Sisters, watercolour over pencil with scratching out, ruled double black ink border, on wove paper without watermark, sheet 273 x 222 mm. (10 3/4 x 8 3/4 in), some spotting and surface dirt with light mildew build-up, pencil inscription to reverse of mount identifying sitters, unframed, [circa 1830s or slightly later].

⁂ Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye, the feminist Caroline Norton, and Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset were the daughters of Caroline Henrietta Sheridan and Thomas Sheridan. The sisters beauty and accomplishments led them to be known as the Three Graces; their brother was the Whig politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1806-1888).