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| Philip de László Evelyn, Marchioness of Downshire 1919 oil on canvas Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Frank Dicksee Alice Anne Graham-Montgomery, Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos and Countess Egerton of Tatton 1901 oil on canvas National Trust, Tatton Park, Cheshire |
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| Ambrose McEvoy Miss Nancy Cunard ca. 1920-25 oil on canvas Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire |
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| Philip de László Sir Richard Winn Livingstone 1934 oil on canvas Queen's University, Belfast |
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| John Lavery Miss Diana Chamberlain ca. 1932 oil on canvas Southampton City Art Gallery |
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| Ethel Gabain Diana Wynyard in The Silent Knight 1938 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Augustus John Sir Archibald Sinclair ca. 1910 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff, Wales |
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| Augustus John Caitlin Macnamara ca. 1930 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff, Wales |
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| Philip de László Mabell Ogilvy, Dowager Countess of Airlie 1933 oil on canvas McManus Gallery, Dundee, Scotland |
The Society Leader
A sudden excitement seizes on the women, subdued but electric,
The chatter pauses for an instant; then breaks out with polite determination.
Mrs. Chadwich Fayne-Hamilton has entered.
She is the final big-wig, the ultimate oligarch.
She is Beau Brummel, Machiavelli and Prince Charming in one.
Beyond her there is nothing.
She is not beautiful, and she is no longer young.
But that is of no moment.
Her clothes are both.
Her coiffure was designed by a famous sculptor, and her
clothes by a Russian prince. Her fortune is beyond calculation.
Her blood is of the bluest.
She is infinitely gracious and elaborately simple.
She has as many shades of manner as a painter has shades of pigment.
Like a politician, she knows everyone's face and everyone's history.
Her mind, like her nails, is carefully manicured, rubbed
and piled until it glitters.
The core of her is ice.
Her husband takes his pleasure elsewhere, but she does not
deign to notice so vulgar an indiscretion.
Mrs. Chadwich Fayne-Hamilton has entered.
The reception is a success.
– Eunice Tietjens (1925)
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| John Collier The Honourable Florence Rachel Hamilton-Russell 1901 oil on canvas National Trust, Dudmaston Hall, Shropshire |
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| William Orpen Paul Mellon 1924 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
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| Philip de László Violet Rawson, Lady Leconfield 1915 oil on canvas National Trust, Petworth House, Sussex |
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| Gerald Kelly Jane XXX 1930 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Clare Atwood Vita Sackville-West dressed for a Masque at Knole in Ellen Terry's stage-costume for Portia in The Merchant of Venice 1910 oil on canvas National Trust, Smallhythe Place, Kent |
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| Philip de László Edward Charles Stewart Robert Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Lord Stewart, 8th Marquess of Londonderry as a Page at the Coronation of King George V ca. 1911 oil on canvas National Trust, Mount Stewart House, County Down |