The family, the identity of the sitters was lost. Sometime during the painting's indirect descent through John Landon (1767-1847), an amateur painter andīrother-in-law of Mrs Dalton, commented that 'the likeness of Dalton is wonderful' (undated letter of c.1844-7 from John Landon to his nephew Francis Landon quoted in Landon, p.337). The young Mary is beginning a drawing under Dalton's instruction. Silk-weaver, on his death in 1765, and was named a legatee in her aunt's will of 1775 (proved 1782). She received 633000 in trust from her grandfather, Abraham de Heulle, a wealthy Huguenot Spitalfields Their orphaned child (later Mary Agar) was adopted by the Daltons, who were themselves childless. Mary Magdalen Garnault whom he married in 1758. Librarian to George III and from 1778 surveyor of the King's pictures his wife Esther ( née de Heulle, died 1782) whom he married in 1764 and their niece Mary de Heulle, the daughter of Esther's brother Abraham (died 1763) and his wife The sitters are Richard Dalton (?1715-91), antiquarian and minor graphic artist,
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