Doddington Hall

Doddington Hall

Mary Eden

circle of Joseph Highmore, ? c.1750s

caption

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

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.

by Martin Postle

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


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