拍品专文
Edmonstone, who had arrived in Calcutta as an East India Company writer in 1783, had begun a family with an unknown bibi in the 1790s. Three sons and a daughter born in the late 1790s and early 1800s were given the surname Elmore and sent to England to be fostered by the sister of a friend in the East India Company. Edmonstone married Charlotte Anne, daughter of Peter Friel, in 1803, with whom he had five sons and six daughters, including the sitters in the present and previous lots. He was appointed chief secretary to the government of India in 1809 and succeeded James Lumsden as member of the Supreme Court of Calcutta in 1812, retiring after a five-year term.