We can overlook her eating her victuals out of a trough.
Mrs Atkinson.
The Irish pig-faced lady. .
Sibling Of Daedalus writes:
This (above) is a portrait by Fairburn, from 1815, showing an Irish lady of striking appearance and mysterious antecedents, described in the following terms:-
“[a] most extraordinary female about twenty years of age.. born in Ireland and of high family and fortune… her body and limbs are of the most perfect and beautiful shape but her head and face resembles that of a pig… She eats her victuals out of a silver trough, in the same manner that pigs do, and when spoken to by any of her relatives or her companion, she can only answer by a grunt. .”
It seems that the pig-faced lady may have eventually married;
Words scrawled on the back of another middle-aged portrait, by Morland (above), describe her as a Mrs Atkinson, worth £20,000 born in Ireland and married to an Irishman, and called to her meals by the words ‘pig pig pig’.
There aren’t too many Atkinsons in Ireland; perhaps he was one of the Antrim ones. The Atkinsons don’t seem to have had any descendants, or at least none similarly afflicted…
More about the ‘Irish pig-faced lady’ here
Pig-Faced Lady Broadside By Fairburn