English School, 18th Century

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English School, 18th Century

Portrait of a little Girl, said to be Jemima Brooke, seated full length in a white wrap on a red cushion, holding a dove, a draped curtain behind

inscribed on an old label of the reverse 'also Jemima, daughter of Mrs L. Brooke, married to Sir Jeremiah Dickson. Half length.
died March 1815'

with inventory number 25 on the reverse

oil on canvas

50 x 40¼in. (127 x 102.3cm.)

Lot Essay

The old label on the reverse of this portrait identifies the sitter as Jemima, the eighth child of Thomas Langford Brooke and his wife Maria, daughter of John Wicke of Horsham.
She married Sir Jeremiah Dickson, K.C.B.

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