Burne-Jones also had American buyers for his pictures. The earliest, apart from Norton, seems to have been William John Fitzgerald, a lawyer who had married the daughter of a wealthy New York merchant, Eli White. The couple had houses in New York and London, and in 1884 Burne-Jones painted a charming portrait of their daughter Caroline (fig. 99). Noted for her scholarly and literary interests (she was fluent in Sanskrit, an active member of the American Oriental Society, and a friend of Browning, to whom she dedicated a volume of poetry), Caroline married Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, younger brother of the Marquess of Lansdowne, in 1889. Five years later the marriage was dissolved, and in 1901 she married the distinguished Italian explorer Filippo de Filippi, several of whose books she translated. She died in Rome in 1911, a well-known figure in local society. 74 Other buyers for Burne-Jones's paintings emerged in the 1890s. Samuel Bancroft, whose collection is still intact at Wilmington, acquired his first picture, The Council Chamber from the third Briar Rose series (cat. no. 56), in 1892, buying it via Fairfax Murray from Agnew's; and in 1896 Hope (cat. no. 163) was painted for Mrs. George Marston Whitin of Whitinsville, Massachusetts. "They are very pleased with it," Burne-Jones reported, but he was dismayed to hear that its owner planned to hang it without glass. "I like a picture so much better under glass, it is like a kind of ethereal varnish." 75