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Portrait of an Unknown Lady late 19th C
British School
Oil on canvas
H 72.5 x W 61 cm
National Trust, Kingston Lacy
Mrs Prudence Rix c.1756
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788)
Oil on canvas
H 75.7 x W 63.5 cm
Manchester Art Gallery
Lady of Keele 1860–1870
unknown artist
Oil on canvas
H 75 x W 62 cm
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Miss Janet Shairp 1750
Allan Ramsay (1713–1784)
Oil on canvas
H 76.2 x W 63.4 cm
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
Memories 1874
Paul Bürde (1819–1874)
Oil on canvas
H 74 x W 86 cm
Astley Hall Museum and Art Gallery
Joséphine Bowes (1825–1874), Countess of Montalbo 1850
Antoine Dury (1819–c.1896)
Oil on canvas
H 195.8 x W 127.9 cm
The Bowes Museum
Two Women in Renaissance Dress, One Playing a Lute c.1850
Frank Stone (1800–1859)
Oil on canvas
H 69 x W 88 cm
Pannett Art Gallery
Lady Edith Villiers (1878–1935), Wearing a Blue Satin Gown
Samuel Henry William Llewellyn (1858–1941)
Oil on canvas
H 90 x W 70 cm
Mount Edgcumbe House
Mrs Rowe 1752
Henry Pickering (c.1720–1770/1771)
Oil on canvas
H 125.6 x W 100.3 cm
York Museums Trust
Helen Modrzejewska (1844–1909) 1880
Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853–1937)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 50.8 cm
Royal Shakespeare Company Collection
Diana Mary (d.1995), and June Ramsden 1929
Harry Dixon (1861–1941)
Oil on canvas
H 152.5 x W 121.5 cm
North Lincolnshire Museums
British (English) School
Tempera or oil on metal
H 56.3 x W 41.6 cm
Mount Edgcumbe House
Professor D. R. Dow 1898
David Comba Adamson (1859–1926)
Oil on canvas
H 90.8 x W 67.6 cm
Crail Museum & Heritage Centre