Oil Paintings, Watercolours, Prints, Miniatures and Marine Paintings - 2nd September 2009

Lot 230

English School c. 1820 Portrait of Mary Vipan (1799-1866) daughter of Benjamin Vipan of Mepal...

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Description

English School c. 1820 Portrait of Mary Vipan (1799-1866) daughter of Benjamin Vipan of Mepal Half length seated wearing an elaborate hat Inscribed on a label verso Oil on canvas 75 x 60cm; 29½ x 23½in Mary Vipan married John Vipan in 1819. Benjamin Vipan is recorded as residing in Mepal near Chatteris in Cambridgeshire in 1839 where he was a brewer and maltster