![Falklands Portraits: Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton (1911–1994), Baron Shackleton, KG, AC, OBE, PC, FRS, FRGS, in Garter Robes](https://d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net/w800h800/collection/LW/RHOC/LW_RHOC_291A-001.jpg)
Caroline Leeds (1931–2005)
The Royal Hospital Chelsea
Painter of landscapes and portraits, born in Jersey, Channel Islands, daughter of Colonel Henry Vatcher. Her first marriage was to The Duke of Leeds, after which she was married to Peter Hoos and Sir Robert Hobart, but continued to sign her work Leeds. She studied with Philip Lame and Bernard Adams and worked in oils, watercolour and chalk. After the Duke’s death, she bought a house on the southern slopes of Lectoure, in France, overlooking the Pyrenees, spending the summer there and wintering in London. She also painted widely elsewhere in Europe, including Czechoslovakia and Italy. Her output included Falkland war heroes, in the collection of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. She showed in many group exhibitions, including the RP, ROI and RBA, as well as at commercial galleries in London, Lectoure, Paris, New York and Monte Carlo.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)