[Maria, Countess Waldegrave] [art original].Collins, Richard, 1755-1831, artist[approximately 1760]zxxMaria Walpole (1736-1807) was the daughter of Sir Edward Walpole (1706-1784) and his common-law wife Dorothy Clement (1715-1739). She married first, in 1759, James Waldegrave (1714-1763), Earl Waldegrave, and second, in 1766, Prince William Henry Hanover (1743-1805), Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh.Artist attribution identified by Bodo Hofstetter of Christie's, 2004.Maria, Countess Waldegrave, dressed in a pink robe, and wearing a pearl choker.Enclosed in a burnished bezel locket, engraved on the reverse with the initials MCW surmounted by a coronet.For further provenance information, see the custodial history note in the Guide to the Sir Edward Walpole and Dorothy Clement Family Papers (LWL MSS 37).