'How Wickham and Lydia were to be supported in tolerable independence, she could not imagine. But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue, she could easily conjecture.' (Austen's Elizabeth
Eliza, Lizzy Bennet on her sister Lydia and her husband
George Wickham Pride and Prejudice, 1813). Philip Mould & Company are delighted to annouce the sale of our portrait miniature by William Wood. The portrait miniatures 'depicts Miss Mary Pearson, a young lady who in 1796 was briefly engaged to Jane's brother, Henry Austen. As a pretty girl who jumped into a short-lived engagement with a dashing young soldier, Mary is said to have inspired the character of Lydia Bennet - the officer-obsessed teenager who eloped with the notorious Mr Wickham in
Pride and Prejudice…' Read the full museum entry
here . All featured press cen be read in full by following the links below:...
"How Wickham and Lydia were to be supported in tolerable independence, she could not imagine. But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue, she could easily conjecture." (Austen's Elizabeth Eliza, Lizzy Bennet on her sister Lydia and her husband George Wickham Pride and Prejudice, 1813).
Philip Mould & Company are delighted to annouce the sale of our portrait miniature by William Wood. The portrait miniatures 'depicts Miss Mary Pearson, a young lady who in 1796 was briefly engaged to Jane's brother, Henry Austen. As a pretty girl who jumped into a short-lived engagement with a dashing young soldier, Mary is said to have inspired the character of Lydia Bennet - the officer-obsessed teenager who eloped with the notorious Mr Wickham in Pride and Prejudice…' Read the full museum entry here.
All featured press cen be read in full by following the links below:
The Guardian
The Times
The Smithsonian Magazine
The Daily Mail
The Times of India
Apollo
*The portrait miniature was purchased with support from the Beecroft Bequest and Art Fund.*
