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watercolour on ivory

1.75inch high    (  4.44 cm high)

Sotheby's, 9 June, 1986 lot 189

Stephen Lloyd, Exhibition Catalogue, 2005, p. 63

Portrait Miniatures from the Merchiston Collection, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 23 September-11 December 2005, no. 27

Excellent

A fine portrait of Charlotte, Baroness de Ferrers, Later Countess of Leicester (d.1802) wearing a white dress with blue ribbon bow, her white hat decorated with matching blue bow
silver frame with paste border
oval, 1 3/4/ inches high
Charlotte married, 1777, George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend (1753-1811), known as Lord Ferrers of Chartley from 1770 to 1782 and as the Earl of Leicester from 1784 to 1807