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After Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA FRS FRSA 1723-1792
Portrait of Miss Emma and Miss Elizabeth Crewe
Portrait of Miss Emma and Miss Elizabeth Crewe
oil on canvas
60.96 x 50.80 cm. (24 x 20 in.)
£4200

A double portrait depicting the daughters of John Crewe, Esq., M.P. for Cheshire. The identity of each sitter is uncertain, but it has been suggested that Elizabeth is on the right and Emma is on the left.

Literature

Published Septr. 30th, 1782, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside

Notes

Emma Crewe was the daughter of John Crewe and Anne Shuttleworth. She died, unmarried.