Lot Essay
Mary Plumptre, daughter of John Plumptre M.P., married the banker Sir Richard Carr Glyn, 1st Bt., of Gaunts, Dorset, in 1785. He later became Lord Mayor of London in 1798.
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Mary Plumptre (d. 1832), later Lady Glyn, as a child, in white dress with lace trim, white lace bonnet with blue ribbon in her upswept hair
Details
Richard Crosse (British, 1742-1810)
Mary Plumptre (d. 1832), later Lady Glyn, as a child, in white dress with lace trim, white lace bonnet with blue ribbon in her upswept hair
oval, 1 5/16 in. (34 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame
Mary Plumptre (d. 1832), later Lady Glyn, as a child, in white dress with lace trim, white lace bonnet with blue ribbon in her upswept hair
oval, 1 5/16 in. (34 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame
Provenance
Edward Grosvenor Paine (1911-1989) Collection, New Orleans, La., inv. no. 228; Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1981, lot 61 (£1,300).
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