* Thomas Beach, R.A. Milton-Abbas 1738-1806 Dorchester

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Description

Thomas Beach, R.A.
Portrait of Miss Maria Margaret Craven
three-quarter length, standing in a landscape holding a bullfinch
signed and dated lower left 1776
oil on canvas
29 7/8 by 24 3/4 in.
76 by 63 cm.

Provenance

By descent in the family of the sitter;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, April 17 1986, lot 49, where purchased by the present collector.

Catalogue Note

The sitter was the daughter of William, 6th Baron Craven and Elizabeth, daughter of Augustus, 4th Earl of Berkeley. She married William Philip, 2nd Earl of Sefton on January 1, 1792, she died March 9, 1851.