Marie-Louise Roosevelt Pierrepont (Butterfield) (Countess Manvers) was the daughter and only child of Sir Frederick and Lady Jessie Butterfield, owners of Cliffe Castle, Keighley. The ‘Roosevelt’ part of her name came from her maternal grandmother, who was related to Theodore Roosevelt. Marie-Louise showed a talent for art from an early age and was enrolled by her father at at the Julienne School of Art when the family moved to Paris in her teens. There she showed a particular aptitude for portraiture and her early portraits were exhibited at the Paris Salon and others at the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts. In 1912 she returned to England and began to show her work at the Society of Women Artists, where she was elected a member. From her home in Cliffe Castle, She travelled widely across Europe and North Africa, painting scenes she encountered on her travels. Her work was also exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Hiberian Academy and at the Grosvenor Gallery, London. She was a prolific painter and worked with a range of media, including pencil, crayon, pastel, watercolours and oils. Although her subject repertoire was wide, Marie-Louise developed a reputation for her detailed interior and exterior building scenes, including those at Cliffe Castle, and later at Thoresby Hall, Nottinghamshire, her home after she married Gervas Evelyn Pierrepont, the 6th Earl Manvers, and became the Countess Manvers. They had three children. At Thoresby Hall, she also painted staff and local people from the nearby village. There is an ineresting recollection of her by an employee of Thoresby Hall at Nottsarthistory. There is an extensive collection of over 700 examples of her lifetime’s work: ‘The Pierrepont Collection’, at Thoresby Courtyard Gallery, Thoresby Hall; Cliffe Castle also displays examples of her work. (http://www.notjusthockney.info/pierrepont-marie-louise-roosevelt-countess-manvers/) undefined

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