Lot 107: PATRICK JOHN MCMORELAND 1741-1809

one showing Ireland Blackburne wearing a blue coat and white lace collar, Mary wearing a white dress and holding the youngest child, Elizabeth, and Anna wearing a white dress with a blue sash and a white bonnet, oval
inscribed on sheet of paper inside presentation case: Ireland Blackburne/1783/Mary 1785/Anna 1787/Elizabeth 1789/Mrs Mee pinxt
Brass-metal frame, engraved verso along rim: Anna 1787 Mary 1785 Elizabeth 1789 J.Ireland Blackburne 1783 Mrs Mee pinxt, glazed reverse with plaited hair

the other half-length, seated, wearing a white dress with a blue sash and white bonnet, a bunch of flowers on her lap, signed l.l.: PM/1796, oval
Brass-metal frame, engraved verso along rim: Harriet Blackburne 1794-1876 Mrs Mee pinxt, glazed reverse with lock of hair

Quantity: 2

one 5.5 by 7 cm., 2 1/4 by 2 3/4 in., the other 6.5 by 4.5 cm., 2 1/2 by 1 3/4 in.

Harriet Elizabeth Blackburne, Hale Hall with Notes on the Family of Ireland Blackburne, 1881, p.41 (Portrait of Ireland Blackburne, Mary, Anna and Elizabeth) & 42 (Portrait of Harriet Blackburne)

John Ireland Blackburne (1783-1874), later of Orford Hall and Hale, was the son of John Blackburne (1754-1833) and his wife, Anne (d.1823) and became a Member or Parliament for Warrington and Newton. On 19th April 1781 he married Anne, daughter of William Bamford of Bamford, Lancs. John Ireland's sister, Mary, married George John Legh of High Legh Cheshire on 14th July 1803 and died 10th June 1856. His other sister, Anna, married Edwin Corbett, of Darnhall, Cheshire. His sisters, Elizabeth and Harriet (depicted in the second portrait included in this lot) died unmarried

A portrait of the Reverend T.Blackburne by Patrick McMoreland was sold at Christie's on 8th July 1987, lot 374. It was dated 1792 and similarly signed to the portrait of Harriet Blackburne included in the present lot