A Candid Portrait

I love how you can almost see Mrs Mortlock trying not to laugh as her son refuses to look suitably sombre... Elizabeth Mortlock (b.1756) and her son John Mortlock the Younger, by John Downman, 1779.

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Lady Russell and Her Son

You try getting a 3 year old to sit still for a portrait... Lady Russell and Her Son (1786), by Romney. 

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