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18th Century portrait miniature of Frances Crosbie, nee Wesley, painted in watercolour on ivory
By Anne Mee circa 1800. H 7.8cm
H 31⁄4"
in silver frame struck with mark of George Stockwell
Frances was the daughter of Richard Wesley, 1st Baron Mornington and the aunt of Richard, later 2nd Earl of Mornington and Marquess of Wellesley, Arthur, later 1st Duke of Wellington, and later 3rd Earl of Monington and Henry, alter Baron Cowley. She married in 1750, William Francis Crosbie, an Irish MP.
5172 (1680566/570738/22)
£ 900
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