Rose-Henriette Peronne de Sercey, Baroness de Finguerlin (b. 1773)

manner of Baron François Gérard (Rome 1770 – Paris 1837). Oil painting on canvas, Rose-Henriette Peronne de Sercey, Baroness de Finguerlin (b 1773), French School, manner of Baron François Gérard (Rome 1770 – Paris 1837), signed bottom left: F.V. Douine (?)/1815. A half-length portrait, wearing a mustard-coloured robe and red cloak. 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 (1801–31) was married to Charles Standish (1790–1863), the eldest son of Thomas Strickland Standish, in 1822. In 1801 Henriette divorced Matthiessen and married the Swiss Baron Henri de Finguerlin de Bischinsen.Their daughter, Gasparine, was married to Charles’s younger brother,Thomas Strickland of Sizergh (1792 - 1835). Sizergh Castle, Cumbria