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Lot Essay
Caroline Vernon, née Fazakerley, married Gowran Vernon Smith, son of Baron Lyveden of Farming Woods, Northamptonshire and Emma Mary Wilson, daughter of John Fitzpatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory. Caroline's daughter Gertude, was born in 1860 and married Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw, who famously sat for John Singer Sargent, Lady Agnew circa 1892-3.
Little is known of Caroline Vernon, but her watercolours, particularly the interior scenes, exhibit a delight in her surroundings both at the family home in Farming Woods, Northamptonshire and at the homes of family and friends that she visited. She recorded not only the anecdotal detail of the people and how they lived but the wall decorations, furniture and textiles, including interiors of subsequently demolished houses such as Teddesley, Staffordshire, and paintings that she saw, the following can be identified Sir Joshua Reynolds' Richard Robinson, the Archbishop of Armagh; and Mrs Montagu; Mrs R B Sheridan by Thomas Gainsborough.
Little is known of Caroline Vernon, but her watercolours, particularly the interior scenes, exhibit a delight in her surroundings both at the family home in Farming Woods, Northamptonshire and at the homes of family and friends that she visited. She recorded not only the anecdotal detail of the people and how they lived but the wall decorations, furniture and textiles, including interiors of subsequently demolished houses such as Teddesley, Staffordshire, and paintings that she saw, the following can be identified Sir Joshua Reynolds' Richard Robinson, the Archbishop of Armagh; and Mrs Montagu; Mrs R B Sheridan by Thomas Gainsborough.