George St John, 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke
George Richard St John, 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke and 4th Viscount St John, styled The Honourable George St John from birth until 1787, was a British peer and politician. He became famous in his own lifetime for embarking on an extra-marital relationship with his own half-sister, Mary Beauclerk, that produced four sons. The two lovers had to leave England and live on the continent for a time.
portrait by John Hoppner
Lady Diana Beauclerk was an English noblewoman and celebrated artist.
Portrait of Lady Diana Beauclerk by Joshua Reynolds, 1763–1765
Topham Beauclerk, her second husband
Part of a stipple engraving, published by John Boydell in 1782, after Lady Diana's 1779 drawing of her friend and cousin Georgiana Cavendish.
"Lady and child dancing", by Lady Diana Beauclerk