Lot 226
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* Lemuel Francis Abbott circa 1760-1802

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Description

  • Lemuel Francis Abbott
  • Portrait of Dorothy Turner (née Gallimore)
  • oil on canvas

Literature

G.B. Roberts, "Serendipity-A New Look at Thomas Turner," in Ars Ceramica, No. 7, 1990, pp. 41-2, reproduced fig. 3;
Collector, Autumn 1999, No. 21, p. 18, reproduced.

Catalogue Note

The sitter was the first wife of Thomas Turner (1749-1809), proprietor of the Caughley Porcelain Manufactory, Shropshire.  A portrait of Thomas Turner by Abbott is in the collection of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Ironbridge, Shropshire.