RALPH EARL* (1751-1801)

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RALPH EARL* (1751-1801)

Frances Hortin and Her Sister: A pair of paintings

both, oil on canvas
both, 24 1/8 x 20¼in. (61.2 x 51.5cm.) (2)

Provenance

By descent in the family of the sitters to the present owner

Lot Essay

The following inscription was copied from the back of one of the paintings prior to lining: This portrait of Frances Hortin at the age of seventeen, was painted in the year 1792, being one of twelve Family Portraits by "Earle", an artist from America.