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Framed portrait print of Everilda Dorothea Smith, Lady Mordaunt
Martin. Two notes are pasted to the back of the frame. The first reads:
"Everilda Dorothea, daughter of the Revd. William Smith, Rector of
Burnham Westgate in Norfolk and wife of Sir Mordaunt Martin who resided
there. She died in 1800. This portrait of her was taken from a private
plate engraved about 1765 after a picture in crayon by Cotes, lately
belonging to the Beaumont family in Yorkshire, her relations, and now
transferred to the Revd. Mordaunt Barnard, her grandson. The present
impression was found at the Strawberry Hill sale in June 1842, of the
celebrated collection there, made originally by Horace Walpole, and
afterwards the property of Lord Waldegrave. This print is very scarce".
The second reads "Portrait of Everlda Dorothea, wife of Sir Mordaunt
Martin (née Smith).
Died 1800. This engraving is taken from a private plate which was
engraved about 1763. A copy was in the Strawberry Hill sale of
June 1842. The picture by Cotes formerly belonged to the Beaumonts of
Yorkshire and afterwards to the Rev. Mordaunt Barnard, Lady Martin's
grandson. The engraving is very scarce."
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Held by Lady Denise Evans. |