Portrait of Edmund Knowles Muspratt (1833-1923) and Emma Jessie Muspratt (1836-1919), small three-quarter-length, in an lake landscape, painted arch

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Wlhelm Trautschold (1815-1877)
Portrait of Edmund Knowles Muspratt (1833-1923) and Emma Jessie Muspratt (1836-1919), small three-quarter-length, in an lake landscape, painted arch
oil on canvas
28¾ x 25 in. (73 x 63.5 cm.)

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Lot Essay

James Muspratt, the father of Edmund and Emma established a chemical manufacturing company in Liverpool. It was while Emma was ill that a friend, Baron Justus von Liebig, invented an easily assimilable meat extract which was the technological and commercial beginning of Bovril.

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