Full-length in a doorway
Signed lower right: Edwin D. Smith pin.t 1839
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour, with corners cut
30.1 x 24.3 cm., 11 ? x 9 ? in.
Provenance:
Lord Courthope, Whiligh, Wadhurst, East Sussex;
By descent until 2011
Anna Deacon married George Courthope Esq. Of Whiligh in January 1841. She was the eldest daughter of John Deacon of Mabledon, Tonbridge. Deacon made his fortune in Deacon?s Bank and bought Mabledon from the Burton family in 1828.
Three-quarter length seated at a table holding a guitar
Signed lower right: Edwin D. Smith pin.t 1839
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour, with corners cut
33 x 24.6 cm., 13 x 9 ? in.
Frances Deacon later married Col. Arthur Ramsden of Steneness, Ashurst.
Three-quarter length, holding a fishing rod
Signed lower left: Edwin D. Smith pin.t 1838
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour, with corners cut
33.5 x 25.7 cm., 13 x 10 in.
William Deacon married Miss Mary Sophia Currie.
Full-length in a garden carrying a basket
Signed lower left: Edwin D. Smith pin.t 1838
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour, with corners cut
33.5 x 25.7 cm., 13 x 10 in.
Provenance:
Lord Courthope, Whiligh, Wadhurst, East Sussex;
By descent until 2011
Lady Sophia Deacon died, aged twenty-one, in 1852.