
Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Provenance
The sitter and thence by descent to the present owner
Literature
H. Ellery and C. Pickering Bowditch, The Pickering Genealogy, 1897, vol I, p. 270, ill. p. 268
Mrs Hammond Dorsey was the daughter of the Federalist Senator Timothy Pickering (1745-1829) who was painted by Stuart in 1808 and was Secretary of State in George Washington's administration. It is thought that the painting was commissioned by Elizabeth's brother, Henry Pickering.