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Susan Jay and her Dog

The identification is given by a label formerly verso (now on file): John Wood/ 1821/ a portrait of/ Susan Jay and her dog. The donor provided an undated note concerning Susan Jay, saying she became a Catholic convert and entered a convent at Croyden, upon which her father condemned her portrait to the attic; it descended through her younger brother, John Jay, at the death of whose widow the portrait was recieved by Mrs Mason who presented it to Dulwich.

Credit: Presented by Harriette Estill Mason to Dulwich College in 1938 and bequeathed in 1942

1821

Oil on canvas

68.5 x 56.5 cm

DPG650

Image and text © Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2019

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