Susan Armine, Lady Bellasys, widow of Sir Henry Bellasys, mistress to the Duke of York, one of the Windsor Beauties, d. 1713. She is represented as St. Catherine with her left hand with a martyr’s palm leaf on a wheel, while two cherubs crown her with myrtle. Aka Elinor, Lady Byron. Steel engraving by Thomas Wright after a portrait by Joacob Huysman from Mrs Anna Jameson’s Memoirs of the Beauties of the Court of King Charles the Second, Henry Coburn, London, 1838

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