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John Smart (1742-1811)

Mrs Charles Smart (née Sarah Ann Barlow) facing right, in décolleté white dress with lace collar and bordered with pearls, a white surcoat edged in blue and blue sash, emerald brooch at corsage, a bandeau in her powdered curling hair

signed with initials and dated 1792 and I for India, gold frame with plaited hair reverse, tooled red leather case
oval, 2 5/8in. (66mm.) high

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Sarah Ann (died 1819), daughter of John Barlow and his wife Sarah Woolf (sister of Robert Woolf) married Captain Charles Smart, brother of the artist, in Madras on 4 September 1792. They had one son Hamilton Edmund (died 1826).

A portrait of the sitter and another of her husband were sold in these rooms by Hilda Owen, the great-great grand daughter of Robert Wolf, 27 March 1984, lot 237 and 236

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