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Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Wellesley, Countess of Mornington (née Roland or Rolland; c. 1766 – 5 November 1816) was a French actress who became the mistress, and later the wife, of Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley. As an actress, she was known as Gabrielle Fagan.
Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland (1766-1816) had been an actress at the Comédie Française before the revolution. In Rome, she became the lover–and later the wife–of a British aristocrat, the First Marquess Wellesley of Norragh.
Exhibition History. Title: Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland. Artist: Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris) Date: 1791. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 39 × 29 1/2 in. (99 × 74.9 cm) Classification: Paintings.
Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom. ‘Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland’ was created in 1791 by Louise Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun in Rococo style.
Apr 24, 2020 · Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland marks a pivotal and transformative moment in Vigée Le Brun’s oeuvre. Gloriously windswept, Roland is freed from the domestic interiors and hair powder of the artist’s earlier portraits completed in France, as illustrated below.
We offer the Louise Vigée Le Brun work of art 'Portrait of Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland, Countess of Mornington'. Louise Vigée Le Brun of the French school of artists created this fine example of Portrait art from the Neoclassicism - 1780-1820 period.
Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland was the bastard child of a French actress and an Irish emigre, who carried on the family tradition, becoming a French actress who had several bastards by an Anglo-Irish politician.
