Which artist painted Ada Lovelace seated at a piano in 1852?

Henry Phillips painted Ada Lovelace seated at a piano in 1852. The artist is more fully identified as Henry Wyndham Phillips, a British portrait painter who portrayed Lovelace near the end of her life.

The painting is especially poignant because Lovelace was seriously ill with the cancer that would kill her later that year. A surviving daguerreotype records the painting, and modern institutions often describe the image as a copy or photograph after Phillips's original portrait.

A common mix-up involves Phillips's father, Thomas Phillips. Thomas was also a prominent portrait painter and had painted Lovelace's father, the poet Lord Byron. That family connection helped lead Ada to sit for Henry Wyndham Phillips, but Thomas did not paint the 1852 piano portrait.

Another source of confusion is the image's photographic history: the surviving daguerreotype was made by an unknown photographer, while the underlying painting was by Henry Wyndham Phillips. Thus, “Henry Phillips” is the quiz's intended and canonical answer.