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Lady Wharncliffe née Caroline Mary Elizabeth Creighton (Crichton) (1779–1856) was a British female artist known for her landscape and figurative drawing and painting. A number of these artworks are in Tate Collection and Archive. She was married to James Stuart- Wortley, the 1st Baron Wharncliffe and there are four portraits of her as a child in the National Trust Collection.
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Personal life
Lady Wharncliffe was the daughter of John Creighton, 1st Earl Erne and the granddaughter of Lord Stuart of Wortley, the first Conservative to be elected as a Member of Parliament for Sheffield. She married Lord Wharncliffe on 30 March 1799. They had four children:
Works
55 works, including one landscape painting and a series of sketches of models, by Lady Wharncliffe can be found in the Tate Collection and Archive.,