English School, 18th Century

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English School, 18th Century

Portrait of a Girl, half-length, in a pink dress trimmed with lace

with inventory number 26 on the stretcher

oil in canvas

31 x 26¼in. (78.7 x 66.7cm.)

Lot Essay

The sitter is possibly a sister of Jane Brooke (see previous lot). Peter Brooke and his second wife Elizabeth had two other daughters; Elizabeth who married Randle Ford of Wexham, Buckinghamshire, on 13 December 1785, and Frances, who married Thomas Oliver of Laytonstone on 20 December 1786.

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