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circle of Joseph Highmore, Mary Eden
Photo courtesy of Dave Penman (All rights reserved)
Details
- Country House
- Doddington Hall
- Title(s)
- Mary Eden
- Date
- ? c.1750s
- Location
- Drawing Room
- Medium and support
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Overall height: 75 cm, Overall width: 62 cm
- Artist
- circle of Joseph Highmore (1692-1780)
- Catalogue Number
- DN59
Bibliography
R.E.G. Cole, History of Doddington, otherwise Doddington-Pigot, in the County of Lincoln, and its successive owners, with pedigrees, Lincoln : James Williamson, 1897, p. 224
Description
Mary Eden was the daughter of Martha Eden (nee Lowth), and Robert Eden, and granddaughter of DD (1660-1732). Mary Eden’s father, Robert Eden, was Archdeacon and Prebendary of Winchester Cathedral. This portrait came to Doddington through the Jarvis family in the nineteenth century.