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Wheatley    Pts. of the Winstanley Wood Family   A704    2.

remained in the family for his daughter, Mary married Crawford Davison, the purchaser.

He died at Pierrepont, at the end of March, in his 86th year, and was buried in Frensham Churchyard on the 2nd April 1831.

Wheatley also painted Mary and William Warren Wood some years earlier than this.

^[[(a portrait of Ralph Wood in late life painted by G. Stuart our No A-703)]]

ii. [[underlined]] Portraits of Mrs. Ralph Winstanley Wood and her two daughters [[/underlined]]
28 x 35          A 705

Signed with initials, "F.W." on the stone bench on which Mrs. Wood is sitting.

Mrs. Wood, in a voluminous white muslin dress over a pale blue skirt, and a large mob cap, seated on a stone bench against an overspreading fir tree, holding a book in her right hand, looks toward her elder daughter, who is dressed in white and yellow, and who is offering her a basket of fruit; the younger daughter, Elizabeth, is seen in the background to the right, gathering roses. Peonies to the left, beside the bench, and landscape with a river in the distance beyond.

Mary Margaretta Pearce, granddaughter of Mrs. Bryan, born Cumming of Altyre, married Ralph Winstanley Wood of the 8th Hussars after meeting him on board ship on the way to India.