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JOHN LINNELL (LONDON 1792-1882)
Lot 163 Property from the Important Canadian Collection of Eph and Shirley Diamond

JOHN LINNELL (LONDON 1792-1882)

Portrait of Jessie Wedgwood (1804-1872)

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JOHN LINNELL (LONDON 1792-1882)
Portrait of Jessie Wedgwood (1804-1872)
signed and dated 'J. Linnell fect. 1825' (lower left)
graphite and watercolor heightened with white, oval
12 ½ x 10 in. (31.7 x 25.5 cm.)

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 19 July 1973, lot 91.
with P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London.
with The Morris Gallery, Toronto.

Specialist note

Jessie Wedgwood was the daughter of the horticulturist John Wedgwood (1766-1844), and granddaughter of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795), founder of the Wedgwood pottery. She married her double first cousin Henry Allen Wedgwood (1799-1885) at Abergavenny on 14 September 1830.

While staying in Illey, Gloucestershire, in April 1825, Linnell noted in a letter to his wife Mary that he was working on a portrait of Mr Sheppard, and a drawing of a neighbour, Miss Wedgwood (D. Linnell, op.cit.).