Sir William Beechey R.A. 1753-1839

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Description

Sir William Beechey R.A.
Portrait of Margaret Crow, Mrs Sigismund Trafford (1772-1838)
oil on canvas, framed as an oval

half length, wearing a white dress

Provenance

By family descent

Literature

William Roberts, Sir William Beechey, R.A., 1907, p. 217, illus. opposite page 80

Catalogue Note

The sitter was the daughter of James Crowe of Norwich and his wife Margaret Beevor. In 1791 she married Sigismund Trafford (1762-1827) who bought Wroxham Hall in Norfolk in 1801.