£370
Adam Buck (1759-1833), portrait miniature of Augusta Ludlow Shakespear, watercolour on card, signed and dated lower left, 12.3x11cm in orginal gilt wood frame title in black ‘ Augusta Shakespear Wife of General Sir John Low’ Adam Buck 1825.
(Notes: Sir John Low GCSI KCB FRSE (13 December 1788 – 10 January 1880) was a Scottish officer army officer and political administrator in the service of the British East India Company. In 1829 Low married Augusta Shakespear, second daughter of John Talbot Shakespear, Bengal civil service, and sister of Sir Richmond Shakespear, one of Low's assistants at Lucknow. They had four sons and five daughters:[4]
The history of John Low and his family is told in Ferdinand Mount's book The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805–1905.)
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