Portrait of Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754–1823).

Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754–1823). Mistress of the Duke of Orléans.

Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754–1823). Mistress of the Duke of Orléans.

Lady Grace Dalrymple Elliott born around 1754-1823, was a Scottish courtesan who witnessed the events of the French Revolution in France. She was the mistress of the Prince of Wales and later British King George IV., and of Louis-Philippe II. Joseph de Bourbon, duc d’Orléans.

Read more:

• Gallery: Portraits by people during the French Revolution.
• Gallery: Les “Incroyables et Merveilleuses”. “The Directoire Style” between 1795–1804.
• Nymphs and Merveilleuses. The Frenchwoman of the century by Octave Uzanne.
• The Execution of the King Louis XVI.
• The Execution of Marie-Antoinette.
• The French Republic 1789 to 1802. Fashion during the directoire period by Augustin Callamel.
• Fashion during the french revolution. Paris 1793 to 1795.

Fashion, New Edition: The language of clothes (Smithsonian).