Lot 221
  • 221

John Downman A.R.A. 1750-1824

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Description

  • John Downman, A.R.A.
  • Portrait of Mrs Sarah Anne King with her daughter
  • signed c.l.: John Downman/1805
  • watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour

Catalogue Note

The sitter was the only daughter of Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth (1748-1817) and his wife, Anne.  In 1803 she married Sir Richard King (1774-1834) who was a Vice-Admiral and, in the same year the present picture was drawn, commanded the Achille in the Battle of Trafalgar