Item Description

After Joshua Reynolds a Victorian watercolour of the portrait of Susanna Cecilia Hoare with her eldest daughter, also named Susanna Cecilia, painted in 1764.

Susanna Cecilia Dingley (1743–1795) of Lamb Abbey, near Eltham, Kent, married Richard Hoare (d.1778) of Boreham House, Essex, a partner in Hoare’s bank, in 1762. The couple had five children, and the present picture probably depicts their eldest child, called Susanna Cecilia after her mother, who died young in 1768. In 1765 Mrs. Hoare paid 70 guineas for the picture, which was probably painted 1763–1764.

Picture size: 56cm x 47cm

Framed and glazed.