ENGLISH SCHOOL (circa 1820) after SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE
Portrait miniature of Lady Emily Cowper, later Lady Ashley, Countess of Shaftesbury, as a child, wearing a white dress with blue sash and coral necklace
watercolour on ivory
rectangular gilt gesso frame
21 x 18.5 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/4 in)

Emily Caroline Catherine Frances (1810-1872), first daughter of the 5th Earl Cowper, married on June 10, 1830, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885), the great evangelical philanthropist, who is commemorated by the statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus. Lawrence painted Lady Emily when she was about three years old.

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