English School, late 19th Century

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English School, late 19th Century
A Couple believed to be Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: he, facing right in black coat and white waistcoat, black bow tie, holding an open blue book; she, facing left in white shirt with lace collar, a stole over her shoulders, her dark hair in ringlets
in gilt-metal frames with ribbon surmounts
ovals, 2in. (57mm.) high; and Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson, later Viscount Nelson (1758-1805), in blue coat with gold epaulettes and wearing decorations (English School, after Lemuel Francis Abbott)
on card, with signature Lawrence, rectangular black frame
oval, 3.1/8in. (80mm.) high; and William Shakespeare, in gold embroidered black doublet, ruff (D. Garfield)
singed 'D. Garfield', painted surround inscribed William Shakespeare, rectangular black frame
oval, 3in. (89mm.) high (4)

Lot Essay

Elizabeth Barrett (1806-61) met Robert Browning (1812-89) in 1845 and they were married the following year. They settled in Pisa, and then Florence (1847) where their son Robert was born in 1849. They became the centre of a brilliant literary circle there.

The portrait of Lord Nelson is based on the picture by Abbott painted in 1797 when Nelson was a Rear Admiral.

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