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John’s first portrait of her, titled The White Feather Boa (Elizabeth Asquith) was reproduced in Chiaroscuro with the caption ‘painted in Paris in 1919’. It now hangs in Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Elizabeth Bibesco had also befriended the painter Edouard Vuillard, who painted her seated in the interior of her Paris apartment.
Elizabeth, Princess Bibesco (born Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy Asquith; 26 February 1897 – 7 April 1945) was an English socialite, actress and writer between 1921 and 1940. She was the daughter of H. H. Asquith , the British Prime Minister and the writer Margot Asquith , and the wife of Antoine Bibesco , a Romanian prince and diplomat.
Bibesco, Elizabeth (1897–1943)English writer. Name variations: Princess Bibesco. Born Elizabeth Asquith in 1897; died 1943; dau. of Herbert Henry Asquith (1852–1928, later earl of Oxford and Asquith) and Margot (Tennant) Asquith; stepsister of Violet Bonham-Carter (1887–1969); m.
Elizabeth Bowen escribió una evaluación exhaustiva del trabajo de Bibesco en una introducción a Haven, la colección póstuma de 1951 de historias, poemas y aforismos de Bibesco. En su ensayo, Bowen escribió que "los personajes de Bibesco parecen ser los habitantes de un entorno especial, en el que los tabúes más comunes de los sentimientos y los frenos al habla no operan".
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Elizabeth Bibesco was connected (especially in the mind of the media) with Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, neither of whom treated her well in their letters and diaries, especially after a liaison between Elizabeth and Mansfield's husband, John Middleton Murry. Woolf wrote, "She is pasty and podgy, with the eyes of a currant bun."
