Live Auction 8012Lyons Demesne Works of Art from The Collection of The Late Dr. Tony Ryan
Sir William Beechey, R.A. (Burford, Oxon 1753-1839 London)
Lot 79

Sir William Beechey, R.A. (Burford, Oxon 1753-1839 London)

Double portrait of Misses Emily and Marie Ashworth, full-length, playing with a lamb in a landscape, a waterfall beyond

Closed14 July 2011

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GBP 55,250

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Sir William Beechey, R.A. (Burford, Oxon 1753-1839 London)
Double portrait of Misses Emily and Marie Ashworth, full-length, playing with a lamb in a landscape, a waterfall beyond
oil on canvas
66 x 46 in. (167.5 x 116.8 cm.)

By inheritance in the Cosby family.

Specialist note

Emily and Marie Ashworth, the daughters of Captain Robert Ashworth of Shirley House, Twickenham, were to marry two brothers. Emily (d. 1863), the elder, shown standing to the left, married Sydney Cosby in 1834, while her younger sister married Sydney Cosby's brother Wellesley Pole Cosby in 1841. Emily Cosby lived with her husband at Stradbally Hall, Stradbally, Laois, Ireland, where she was greatly respected for having run soup kitchens and provided medical services to her tenants at her own expense during the Irish Potato Famine (1840-44).