Lot 60: Mrs. Anne Mee (British, c.1770/5-1851)

Margaret Stuart (née Stirling), wearing white dress, her brown hair curled
gold frame, the reverse with gold initials AMS on brown hair
Oval, 58mm. (2 1/4ins.) high
Provenance: The Edward Joseph Collection, no.74
The Frank Woodroffe Collection
The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection; Christie's, 24 June 1935, lot 391
Sotheby's, 25 May 1964, lot 25
Exhibited: Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1889, p.129 no.74
Literature: G. C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures, the property of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906-8, vol.II, no.375

Margaret, daughter of Sir William Stirling was the 2nd wife of Andrew Stuart of Castlemilk and Torrance (see lot 58). Together they had three daughters. After his death, she married, in 1804, Sir William John Pulteney, 5th Bt. of Weston Hall. She styled herself as "Lady Stuart" as she disliked her husband's "ugly name".