ANDREW PLIMER (BRITISH, 1763-1837)

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ANDREW PLIMER (BRITISH, 1763-1837)
The Hon. Charlotte Shore, as a child, in white dress with frilled collar and blue sash at waist
On ivory
Oval, 66 mm. high, gold frame, the reverse with lock of hair and mother-of-pearl panel

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 25 July 1966, lot 73 (£65 to Howard).
Edward Grosvenor Paine (1911-1989) Collection, New Orleans, La., inv. no. 370; Christie's, London, 23 October 1979, lot 177.
Christie's, London, 23 May 1989, lot 168.
The late Mrs T.S. Eliot (1926-2012) Collection, London.

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Lot Essay

Probably the eldest daughter of John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth (1751-1834), governor-general of Bengal and founder and first president of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and his wife Charlotte Cornish (d. 1834). Their first child, Charlotte, had been conceived prior to Shore's departure for India in April 1786, but he did not see her, or his wife, until he returned to England in April 1790. They went on to have another eight children, two of whom died in infancy.

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