Lot 84: Charles Shirreff , b. c. 1750 Portrait of Jane Dorothy Lambton

wearing a white dress with a blue bodice, her arm and hair tied with orange ribbon, pearl and a coral jewellery, gold fausse montre frame, blue glass reverse glazed hair reserve with initials JDL circa 1790

6.1 by 5.3 cm.; 2 5/8 by 2 1/16 in.

T.P. Barnard, a descendent of the Earls of Durham, his sale in these Rooms, 6 October 1980, lot 175

Jane Dorothy Lambton was the eldest daughter of John Lambton of Lambton Castle and his wife Susan, daughter of Thomas, 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, whom he married in 1763. She died unmarried. Her nephew, John George Lambton (1792-1840) was created Baron Durham in 1828 and advanced to the Viscounty of Lambton and the Earldom of Durham in 1833.