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Lot 134
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Edward Smith fl.1740s

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Edward Smith
  • Portrait of Katherine Stackhouse, wife of Jonathan Rashleigh
  • signed l.l.:Ed Smith Pinx: and inscribed with the identity of the sitter on the stretcher
  • oil on canvas
three-quarter length, standing, wearing a red dress and a silver cloak loaded with roses

Provenance

Mrs E.M.S. Brice, by whom sold, Sotheby's, 21st March 1979, lot 59

Literature

Ellis Waterhouse, Dictionary of British 18th Century Painters in Oils and Crayons, 1981, p.351

Catalogue Note

The sitter was the daughter of the Reverend William Stackhouse, of Trehane, Cornwall.  On 5th March 1771 she married as his first wife, Jonathan Rashleigh, the third son of Jonathan Rashleigh.  He was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Rector of Silverton, Devon.