Sir Philip the spaniel shows his sale bite

A pastel portrait of a fashionable young Georgian woman in an ostrich feather hat and blue coat with her dog topped the picture section at Lincolnshire saleroom Golding Young & Mawer (20% buyer’s premium).

According to a label to the base of the frame, the sitter is Mary Mortimer (1764- 1826), with her …

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