Nicholas Farrer (Sunderland 1750-1805)
Nicholas Farrer (Sunderland 1750-1805)

Portrait of Lady Mary Forbes (1722-1782), three-quarter-length, in a blue dress with lace trim, in a landscape

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Nicholas Farrer (Sunderland 1750-1805)
Portrait of Lady Mary Forbes (1722-1782), three-quarter-length, in a blue dress with lace trim, in a landscape
oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.5 cm.)
inscribed with a biography of the sitter
Literature
J. Steegman, Portraits in Welsh Houses, Cardiff, 1962, vol. II, p. 126, no. 2.

Lot Essay

This picture relates to a bust-length portrait of Lady Mary Forbes that was sold at Sotheby's, London, 16 February 1971, lot 37. The latter bears the same eulogising biography as the present lot, extolling Lady Forbes's 'Heavenly Charity' and 'true Piety'. She was married to Admiral John Forbes, depicted in lot 28, and was maternal grandmother to Lady FitzRoy Somerset, later Lady Raglan.

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