Émilien de Nieuwerkerke

1811–1892 (age 81)

Biography

Count Alfred Émilien O'Hara van Nieuwerkerke (16 April 1811 in Paris – 16 January 1892 in Gattaiola, near Lucca) was a French sculptor of Dutch descent (his grandfather was the illegitimate son of a minor stadthouder) and a high-level civil servant in the Second French Empire. He is also notable as the lover of Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, after her estrangement from her husband Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato.