Circle of Jonathan Richardson (1665-1745)/Portrait of Mrs Howe Hicks (circa 1694-1728)/half-length, wearing a green dress with a red ribbon tie at her breast/feigned oval/oil on canvas, 76.5cm x 63cm/Note: The daughter of Jeffrey and Fortune Watts of Great Leighs in Essex and the widow of Benjamin Eames she married Howe Hicks (1689-1727) in 1717/Literature: 'A Cotswold Family' p.241 'she is so absolutely Georgian in appearance that she might have come directly from corrupt little Herrenhausen itself