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Arabella Fermor (1696-1737)
Born: 1696
Society Belle
Died: 1737
Miss Arabella Fermor was the daughter of Henry Fermor Esq of Tusmore in Oxfordshire and his wife, Helen, the daughter of Sir George Browne KB of Great Shefford Manor in Berkshire.
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The fame of her beauty and her charms, as celebrated both by poets and painters, has come down to posterity, for she was the belle of London society in the early years of the 18th century.
There are three known portraits of her.
Mary Russell Mitford describes one thus:
Mrs. Lenoir's nieces possess a portrait of the lovely Arabella Fermor, when she was twelve or thirteen years of age . .
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. a high broad forehead, dark eyes richly fringed and deeply set, a straight nose, pouting lips, and a short chin finely moulded. The dress is dark and graceful, with a little white turned back about the neck and loose sleeves.
The next, chronologically, seems to have been painted soon after her marriage (see illustration) and is one of a pair