Portrait of Jessie Wedgwood (1804-1872)

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JOHN LINNELL (LONDON 1792-1882)
Portrait of Jessie Wedgwood (1804-1872)
signed and dated 'J. Linnell fec^t. 1825' (lower left)
graphite and watercolor heightened with white, oval
12 ½ x 10 in. (31.7 x 25.5 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 19 July 1973, lot 91.
with P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London.
with The Morris Gallery, Toronto.

Literature

D. Linnell, Blake, Palmer, Linnell & Co.: The life of John Linnell, Sussex, 1994, p. 93.

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Lot Essay

Jessie Wedgwood was the daughter of the horticulturist John Wedgwood (1766-1844), and granddaughter of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795), founder of the Wedgwood pottery. She married her double first cousin Henry Allen Wedgwood (1799-1885) at Abergavenny on 14 September 1830.

While staying in Illey, Gloucestershire, in April 1825, Linnell noted in a letter to his wife Mary that he was working on a portrait of Mr Sheppard, and a drawing of a neighbour, Miss Wedgwood (D. Linnell, op.cit.).

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