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| follower of George Jamesone George Jamesone with his Wife and their Child ca. 1640 oil on canvas National Trust, Fyvie Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
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| Thomas Hudson Mrs Bowles, wife of Canon Bowles, and her Child ca. 1740 oil on canvas The Wilson, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire |
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| William Beechey Mr and Mrs John Custance of Norwich with the daughter Frances ca. 1786 oil on canvas Norfolk Museums |
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| David Wilkie William Chalmers Bethune, his wife Isobel Morison and their daughter Isabella Maxwell Morison 1804 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| John Hayter Lady Augusta FitzClarence Kennedy-Erskine (natural daughter of King William IV) with her Children ca. 1830 oil on canvas National Trust, House of Dun, Scotland |
from A Prayer For My Daughter
May she be granted beauty and yet not
Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught,
Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,
Being made beautiful overmuch,
Consider beauty a sufficient end,
Lose natural kindness and maybe
The heart-revealing intimacy
That chooses right, and never find a friend.
– William Butler Yeats (1919)
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| George Hayter Elizabeth Stuart, Lady Stuart de Rothesay with her daughters Charlotte and Louisa 1830-31 oil on canvas Government Art Collection, London |
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| William Dyce John Small and his Son ca. 1835 oil on canvas University of Edinburgh |
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| Theodor von Holst Gustav von Holst and his brother Theodor ca. 1835 oil on canvas The Wilson, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire |
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| Charles Baxter The Sisters ca. 1840-50 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Charles West Cope The Young Mother 1845 oil on panel Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Frederic Leighton Mother and Child 1865 oil on canvas Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Lancashire |
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| George Elgar Hicks Seated Woman with two Children 1879 oil on card (sketch) Southampton City Art Gallery |
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| George Dunlop Leslie Alice in Wonderland ca. 1879 oil on canvas Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries |
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| Sydney Prior Hall The Three Daughters of the Prince and Princess of Wales 1883 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| John Collier The Three Daughters of William Reed 1886 oil on canvas Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead, Merseyside |