John Smart
Portrait of Miss Frances Gore of Tring Park, later Mrs Francis Willock (1759-1806)
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John Smart
Norfolk 1741–1811 London
Portrait of Miss Frances Gore of Tring Park, later Mrs Francis Willock (1759-1806)
signed lower left: JS / 1783, gilt-metal frame
watercolour and bodycolour on ivory
41 by 33 mm
Mrs Walter Raleigh Gilbert (1908-1984);
her sale, London, Sotheby's, 24 February 1969, lot 94, bt. Sharpe;
Dr. H. Sharpe;
sale, London Sotheby's, 2 June 1975, lot 94,
from where acquired by the present owner
The sitter was the great-grand-daughter of Sir William Gore (1644-1708), Lord Mayor of London between 1701 and 1702. In 1785 she married Francis Willock and their son, Sir Henry Willock (1788–1858) distinguished himself in the Madras cavalry before travelling to Persia and living for a time at the court of Tehran. We are grateful to Neil Jeffares for his help in cataloguing this lot.
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