Lady Wharncliffe (née Caroline Mary Elizabeth Creighton)

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.

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:

• John Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Wharncliffe (1801–1855)
• Hon. Charles Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie (1802–1844)
• Hon. James Archibald Stuart-Wortley (1805–1881), Solicitor-General
• Hon. Caroline Jane Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie (d. 12 June 1876), married on 30 August 1830 Hon. John Chetwynd-Talbot (1806–1852)

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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.,