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ATTRIBUTED TO ANNE MEE, NÉE FOLDSONE (BRITISH, CIRCA 1770/75-1851), AFTER RICHARD COSWAY, R.A.
Lady Anne Horatia Seymour, née Waldegrave (1762-1801), in white dress with black lace shawl, black choker, white mob-cap set with blue ribbon, powdered curling hair
on ivory
oval, 2 9/16 in. (65 mm.) high, gold frame made by Hatfield & Sons in 1913, the reverse engraved 'Lady Horatia Waldegrave wife of Lord Hugh Seymour. Died 1801. Richard Cosway. R.A. Born 1740. Died 1821.'
Lady Anne Horatia Seymour, née Waldegrave (1762-1801), in white dress with black lace shawl, black choker, white mob-cap set with blue ribbon, powdered curling hair
on ivory
oval, 2 9/16 in. (65 mm.) high, gold frame made by Hatfield & Sons in 1913, the reverse engraved 'Lady Horatia Waldegrave wife of Lord Hugh Seymour. Died 1801. Richard Cosway. R.A. Born 1740. Died 1821.'
Literature
Albert Edward John, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975), inventory Miniatures at Althorp, 1937, no. 14 (as 'Richard Cosway, R.A No: 29 in 1914 list.').
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