# Portrait of Elizabeth, Lady Webster [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GAUFFIER, Louis]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 51 x 68 cm ## Commentary The sitter of this portrait, Elizabeth, Lady Webster, later Lady Holland \(1770-1845\), is depicted seated full-length, in a white dress and feathered hat, with her spaniel Pierrot, on a 'chaise-longue,' with a guitar, in an interior. Lady Holland was one of the most influential women of her generation and it was due in large measure to her forceful personality that their home in Kensington, Holland House, became the undisputed centre of the Whigs' political and intellectual life until her husband's death in 1840. The painting is signed, inscribed and dated lower left: L. Gauffier. Flor. ce 1795. ## Related artworks - [Portrait of Elizabeth, Lady Webster \(detail\)]() - [Ulysses Recognises Achilles amongst the Daughters of Lycomedes]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()