Lot 45: Portrait of Miss Godfrey, full-length, seated with her dog

Thomas Heaphy (1775-1835) Portrait of Miss Godfrey, full-length, seated with her dog signed, inscribed and dated 'J Heaphy 1802/Broadlands' (lower left) pencil and watercolour 10½ x 8½ in. (26.7 x 21.6 cm.)

with Agnew's, London.

Thomas Heaphy painted two portraits of Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, the great Victorian statesman, who lived at Broadlands, Hampshire. At this time it seems that Heaphy also took this portrait of Miss Emma Godfrey whose correspondence with the Earl can be found in the University archives at Southampton.