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Description Attributed to Robert Edge Pine
London circa 1726 - 1788 Philadelphia
Portrait of Catherine Knatchbull, Mrs Thomas Harris (1709-1796), daughter of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 4th Bt. (1674-1730)
oil on canvas, in a painted oval
76 x 63.3 cm.
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Literature Catalogue of Portraits, 1920, no. 21;
A.T. Bolton, 'Mersham le Hatch',?
Country Life, 26 March 1921,?photographed in the drawing room, p. 371;
H. Avray Tipping, 'Mersham le Hatch',?
Country Life, 8 August 1925,?in situ,?p. 220.
Notes The sitter was the daughter of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 4th Bt. (see lots?110 and 112)
?and his wife Alice Wyndham.?On 11th June 1754 she married Thomas Harris second son of James Harris, and his second wife Lady Elizabeth Ashley. Her husband was a member of Lincoln’s Inn and a Master in Chancery. He was a friend of George Frederick Handel with whom he corresponded and to whom Handel gave the famous portrait of himself by Mercier.