The Waldegrave Sisters; Lady Elizabeth Laura, Lady Charlotte Maria and Lady Anna Horatia seated at a table, wearing lace-bordered white dresses, their powdered hair upswept; Lady Elizabeth Laura and Lady Charlotte Maria winding wool and Lady Anna Horatia sewing, draped red curtain background, pillar, trees and sky background beyond

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SAMUEL SHELLEY (1750/56-1808)
The Waldegrave Sisters; Lady Elizabeth Laura, Lady Charlotte Maria and Lady Anna Horatia seated at a table, wearing lace-bordered white dresses, their powdered hair upswept; Lady Elizabeth Laura and Lady Charlotte Maria winding wool and Lady Anna Horatia sewing, draped red curtain background, pillar, trees and sky background beyond
signed and inscribed on the backing paper 'p[a]inted by Sam: Shel[ley] No. 7. Henrietta Street Cov.t Garden London' and signed in full on a label attached to the reverse of the frame 'The Countess of Waldegrave in the centre [...] of Euston [...] on the left Ly. Horatia Seymour with [.....]born Daughters of James Earl Waldegrave painted by Shelley from the original at Strawberry Hill by Sir Joshua Reynolds'
rectangular, 3 1/8 x 3 13/16 in. (79 x 97 mm.), gilt-metal mount within black-lacquered wood frame with gilt-wood waterleaf and tongue border

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Lot Essay

Elizabeth Laura (1760-1816), Charlotte Maria (1761-1808) and Anna Horatia (d. 1801), daughters of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave (1714/15-1763) and Maria, illegitimate daughter of Hon. Sir Edward Walpole. Elizabeth married her cousin, 4th Earl Waldegrave and had issue. Anna Horatia married Lord Hugh Seymour in 1786 and Charlotte Maria married George Henry, 4th Duke of Grafton (1760-1844) in 1784.

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