Alexander Mosses (1793-1837) of Liverpool. Mary Briggs, nee ...

Hammer

£650

Alexander Mosses (1793-1837) of Liverpool.
Mary Briggs, nee Symson.
Oil on lined canvas.
76cm x 62cm.
A characterful study of the sitter of the previous lot in old age. Recorded by the family as being painted by Mosses in 1821 when Mrs Briggs would have been 93. Her husband, with whom she had 6 children, was a surgeon in Poulton-le-Fylde.