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Alfred Guillaume, Count d'Orsay (French, 1801-1852) Portrait of Ralph Bernal (1808-1882) titled in ink and inscribed in pencil "D'Orsay fecit 16 August 1843" and inscribed in ink by the sitter "Ralph Bernal Junior" pencil h:22 w:16 cm Ralph Bernal, Junior, was the son of the Whig MP and art collector, Ralph Bernal (1783-1854). A lithograph of the same sitter from 1846 by d'Orsay is in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Ralph Bernal Osborne of Newton Anner, County Tipperary, MP (26 March 1808 - 4 January 1882), born and baptised with the name of Ralph Bernal, Jr., was a British Liberal politician. Upon his marriage in 1844, he added Osborne to his name. On 20 August 1844 he married Catherine Isabella Osborne (30 June 1819 - 20 June 1880), from an Anglo-Irish landed family - the daughter of Sir Thomas Osborne, 9th Baronet and Catherine Rebecca Smith On the same day he took her name and his name was legally changed by Royal Licence, becoming Ralph Bernal Osborne. His two daughters shared his estate. His older daughter, Edith Bernal Osborne, married Sir Henry Arthur Blake at Slough, Ireland, on 7 February 1874. His younger daughter, Grace Bernal Osborne (d. London, 18 November 1926), was married at Newtown Anner, County Tipperary, on 3 January 1874 to William Amelius Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans. His grandson was Osborne Beauclerk, 12th Duke of St Albans. Image is good and clear - two foxing spots to the old cream mount. Under glass.