Description Caroline Fleur Osborne, Duchess of Leeds, later Caroline Hobart, Lady Hobart, (née Vatche 1931-2005), framed, not examined out of frame, signed "Leeds" lower right. 22" high, 26" wide. Valtcher (Leeds) was a British portraitist and landscape painter. As the third wife of John Osborne, 11th Duke of Leeds, she was the last Duchess of Leeds. She was known professionally as Caroline Leeds. Born in 1931, the daughter of Colonel Henry Monckton Vatcher, Caroline married the eleventh Duke of Leeds, John Osborne. A professional painter since the age of twenty-one, the Duchess studied with Philip Lambe, R.P.N.S. and Bernard Adams R.P.R.O.I.N.S. specializing in oils, watercolors and chalks. During her marriage to the late 11th Duke of Leeds and later to Lt. Commander Sir Robert Hobart, she painted in many different parts of the world. Her
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