Lot 151
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WILLIAM EGLEY (1798-1870)

Catherine (1811-1873), Countess of Bandon (née Whitmore), facing right in low-cut blue velvet dress with lace underdress, her dark brown hair dressed in ringlets; her sister, Emily Elizabeth Wilmot (b. 1815) (née Whitmore), facing right in low-cut claret-coloured velvet dress with lace underdress, her dark brown hair dressed in ringlets; and a lady called Catherine Whitmore (1781-1867, née Thomson), full face in sea-green velvet dress with lace underdress, lace cap in her brown hair dressed in ringlets

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WILLIAM EGLEY (1798-1870)
Catherine (1811-1873), Countess of Bandon (née Whitmore), facing right in low-cut blue velvet dress with lace underdress, her dark brown hair dressed in ringlets; her sister, Emily Elizabeth Wilmot (b. 1815) (née Whitmore), facing right in low-cut claret-coloured velvet dress with lace underdress, her dark brown hair dressed in ringlets; and a lady called Catherine Whitmore (1781-1867, née Thomson), full face in sea-green velvet dress with lace underdress, lace cap in her brown hair dressed in ringlets
signed and dated on the backing paper 'Painted by W. Egley 15 Buckingham [.] . Portland PL. 1833' and 'painted by Wm Egley 15 Buckingham St. Portland Pl[ace]' and 'Painted by Wm Egley 15 Buckingham St Portland Place 1833' respectively
all rectangular, 1 13/16 x 1 7/16 in. (46 x 37mm.) to 2 x 1 9/16 in. (50 x 39 mm.), black wood frames (3)
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Lot Essay

Catherine, eldest daughter of Thomas Whitmore of Apley Park, Co. Salop and his wife Catherine, daughter and heir of Thomas Thomason of York, married Frances, 3rd Earl of Bandon (1810-1877) on 16 August 1832. Emily Elizabeth, second daughter of Thomas Whitmore married Colonel Eardley Wilmot in 1855. Catherine, only daughter of J. Thomson and his wife, Catherine only daughter of James Grierson, married J. Whitmore of Apley Park, Salop.

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