Lucy Ebberton Type:unstretched canvas the identification being confirmed by

the identification being confirmed by provenance and by the signet ring with the sitter's arms

gilt framed

Attributed in early catalogues to Van Dyck but catalogued in 1980 as After Cornelius Jonson the elder

Duparc suggests a date of c

a Dutch painter often depicting the effects of a fire in a nocturnal landscape

Lucy Ebberton Type:unstretched canvas the identification being confirmed byEngraved by J. McArdell, 1746 65, as the work of Knapton. The sitter is identified in an inscription by Horace Walpole on his own copy of the McArdell as an engraving, which states that she was the wife of 'Capt Grieg of the Marines'. Her identity is otherwise obscure. The costume suggests a date in the late 1740s.