Alice Keppel, English socialite Size:XL: 100 x 80cm with chandeliers above

with chandeliers above

The view shows St Paul's Cathedral and St Mary-le-Bow with families on the move

She was the heroine of the last tale in the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

c1815 from an earlier print dated 1663

and took the name of Nuffield

Alice Keppel, English socialite Size:XL: 100 x 80cm with chandeliers aboveAlice Keppel, English socialite, 1906 (1964). Alice Keppel (1868 1947) was the most famous mistress of King Edward VII. They met in 1898 when Edward was still Prince of Wales and their relationship continued until his death in 1910. A print from King Edward the Seventh, by Philip Magnus, William Clowes and Sons Ltd, London, 1964.