PORTRAIT OF EDWARD WILSON, OF DALLAM TOWER, HALF-LENGTH, IN A GREY COAT AND A BLUE WAISTCOAT, FEIGNED OVAL

EDWARD WILSON (D. 1764), OF DALLAM TOWER, MILNTHORPE, WESTMORLAND, MARRIED DOROTHY FLEMING, DAUGHTER AND CO-HEIR OF OF SIR WILLIAM FLEMING, OF RYDAL HALL, MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR WESTMORLAND, IN 1746. THEIR DAUGHTER CHARLOTTE MARRIED CHARLES GIBSON, OF QUERNMORE PARK, IN 1788, WHOSE SON CHARLES (1790-1832) MARRIED JANE ELIZABETH HUNTER, GREAT-GRAND-DAUGHTER OF MARY HADDOCK (N©EE CAWTHORNE). THE SITTER'S YOUNGER BROTHER, COLONEL GEORGE WILSON, WHO PURCHASED ABBOT HALL, KENDAL, IN 1757, WHICH HE LATER SOLD IN 1772, WAS PAINTED BY GEORGE ROMNEY IN 1760.

IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT THIS PORTRAIT MAY BE BY CHRISTOPHER STEELE (1733-1767), WHO SETTLED AT KENDAL IN 1750, TO WHOM ROMNEY WAS APPRENTICED IN 1755.