Diana Russell, Duchess of Bedford, was a member of the Spencer family, chiefly remembered because of an unsuccessful attempt to arrange a marriage for her with Frederick, Prince of Wales.
Lady Sunderland and Lady Diana, by Sir Godfrey Kneller
Bernard Lens's 1720 portrait of Diana and her brothers Charles and John
The Dowager Duchess of Marlborough and Lady Diana Spencer, by Maria Verelst
Portrait by Thomas Hudson, still hanging in Woburn Abbey
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford was a British Whig statesman who served as the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1757 to 1761. A leading member of the Whig party during the Seven Years' War, he negoti
Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1770
Bedford was a patron of Canaletto and commissioned a number of works from him, including this view of Venice.
1759–1762 portrait Bedford by Sir Joshua Reynolds