Image: Henriette Rose Peronne de Sercey (05)

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Description: A Creole orphan niece of the notorious Mme de Genlis, governess to Philippe Egalité’s children, and mother of some of them, Henriette was taken by her on the outbreak of the French Revolution to England and then to Hamburg, where she married the banker Johann Conrad Matthiessen in 1796. Their daughter Emma Conradine (1801-1831) was married to Charles Standish (1790-1863), the eldest son of Lord Thomas Strickland Standish (1763-1813), in 1822. In 1801 Henriette divorced Matthiessen and married the Swiss Baron Henri de Finguerlin-Bischingen. Their daughter, Gasparine, was married to Charles’s younger brother,Thomas Strickland Standish of Sizergh (1792-1835).
Title: Portrait of Henriette Rose Peronne de Sercey
Credit: Rose Henriette Peronne de Sercey, Baronne de Finguerlin, sur le site de Art UK.org.
Author: François Gérard
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License: Public domain
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