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Claudia Hill
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Medium
watercolour on ivory
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Description / Expertise
Henry Edridge, A.R.A., circa 1790
Sarah Anne (nee Child), Countess of
Westmorland, in a landscape, wearing a white dress and blue ribbon waistband, a pendant locket, pearl choker and blue bandeau in her long powdered hair gold frame Sarah Anne, eloped with and married, 20th May 1782, John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland (1759-1841). On the 28th July, 1782, Lady Derby wrote to Sarahs mother Ld Westmorland is, I am told, a very deserving yg man, and Miss Child handsome yg and rich. Together they had three daughters and one son, John, who succeeded his father as 11th Earl.
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