Copley presumably painted this miniature along with a nearly identical pastel portrait (1769, Winterthur Museum, Delaware), for his wife, Suzannah Clarke, as a wedding gift.
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1769<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1769-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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