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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.