Attributed to Thomas Hargreaves

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Attributed to Thomas Hargreaves
Mrs. Feilden of Witton (née Leyland)(d.1822), in a black dress with frilled white collar and wearing a white bonnet with a black ribbon
rectangular gilt-wood frame
oval, 3 1/8 in. (80 mm.) high; and two plaques of Sir J.H. Farrar, Bt. as a young boy, in profile to right (one cracked)
wood frames
both approximately 3¼ in. (82 mm.) diam.
See part lot Illustration (3)

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Lot Essay

Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st Baron (1819-1899), English civil servant and statistician, Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, he was called to the bar at Lincolns Inn in 1844, but retired from practice in the course of a few years. He entered the public service in 1850 as secretary to the naval (renamed in 1853 the marine) department of the Board of Trade. In 1893 he was raised to the peerage.

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