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After Thomas Gainsborough
Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Linley and her Brother Thomas
pencil and watercolour
27 x 23½in.

Lot Essay

Elizabeth Linley (1754-1792) married Sheridan in 1772 and was famous for the loveliness of her singing voice. Her brother, Thomas (1756-1778) was an infant prodigy upon the fiddle, but was drowned in the prime of his youth. From Knole.

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