Susan Jay and her Dog Type:unstretched canvas Callimachus

Callimachus

in which the model appears to be the same (sold Sotheby's Colonnade

of a picture in an American private collection

in Kensington Palace and was often to be seen walking in Kensington Gardens

Susan Jay and her Dog Type:unstretched canvas CallimachusThe date is illegible, but is recorded in a label formerly on the verso (now on file) as 1821. 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.