Day 067/22. The Countess of Blessington

This picture of the Countess of Blessington inside Hughenden Manor intrigued me today. It is a very unusual pose. She is leaning forward, towards the artist. Almost like a wide angle lens used badly. Her hands and arms look out of proportion.
There is quite a story of this lady, her childhood was blighted by her father's character and poverty, and her early womanhood made wretched by a compulsory marriage at the age of fifteen to Captain Maurice St. Leger Farmer, an English officer whose drunken habits finally brought him as a debtor to prison, where he died by falling out of a window in October 1817. She had left him after three months and remarried only four months after her first husband's death.
And a lot more scandal and shenanigans...