Portrait of Lady Watkin Williams-Wynn, half-length, looking to the left, in a white dress and a fur-trimmed stole

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Daniel Gardner (1750-1805)
Portrait of Lady Watkin Williams-Wynn, half-length, looking to the left, in a white dress and a fur-trimmed stole
pencil and pastel heightened with body colour
10½ x 8¾ in. (26.7 x 22.3 cm.)

Provenance

E.M. Hodgkins.
James Thursby-Pelham and by descent.

Literature

G.C. Williamson, Daniel Gardner, London, 1921, p. 108.

Exhibited

London, Hamilton Place, March 1910.

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Lot Essay

The sitter was the daughter of the Rt. Hon. George Grenville, sister of the Marquess of Buckingham and Aunt of the 1st Duke of Buckingham. She married Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, politician and second son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet of Wynnstey, Denbighshire, on 21 December 1771 as his second wife. She died at Richmond, Surrey on 29 September 1832.

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