Lot 83: Locker (Edward Hawke, 1777-1849). Clevedon Court,

Locker (Edward Hawke, 1777-1849). Clevedon Court, Bristol, pen and brown ink with watercolour, signed and dated 2 October 1809 on original mount (attached to verso), 20.5 x 31cm (8 x 12in), framed & glazed. Provenance: Sold at Christies, lot 86, 22 July 1986. An accompanying letter written at Clevedon Court in 1989 by Lady Margaret Ann Elton (1915-1995) observes that the picture was most likely originally sold by Arthur Brookfield, son of literary hostess and author Jane Octavia Elton Brookfield, and his wife Olive Hamilton "in their endlessly gentile poverty". (1)
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