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Description Attributed to Enoch Seeman
Gdansk circa 1694 - 1745 London
Portrait of Harriet Parry, Mrs Wadham Knatchbull (c.?1711-1794)
oil on canvas, in a carved and pierced giltwood frame
76.1 x 63.4 cm.
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Literature Catalogue of Portraits, 1920, no. 61.
Notes The sitter was the daughter of Charles Parry of Oakfield, Berkshire. On 8th July 1743 she married the Rev. Wadham Knatchbull (1707-60), son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 4th Bt. (1674-1730)?(see lots 110 and 112)
?and his wife Alice Wyndham. Her husband studied law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he was a fellow between 1731 and 1739. He was later vicar of Chilham, and Chancellor and Prebendary of Durham.