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HENRIETTA ANNE HOARE (later THE HON. MRS MATTHEW FORTESCUE) c.1765-1841 Loch Katrine The Castle, and Gorge of S. Martin, in the Val d'Aosta Lilliane, 4 Miles North of S. Martin, in the Val d'Aosta The Inn at Shrequar (?) all signed 'H.A. Fortescue' and variously dated from 1817-1823 pen and sepia wash, unframed 13 x 19 1/2 in (33.1 x 49.5cm); four(4) Sold with an album containing sepia sketches by Charlotte, Lady Lindsay; and a further album of sepia drawings by another hand depicting views in the area of Richmond (London) circa 1800; together with a folio of unframed watercolours by various hands including a sketch of A coastal landscape, 1857 by Edward Lear The Hon. Henrietta Fortescue, was the daughter of Sir Richard Hoare, 1st Bt, and half-sister of Sir Richard Colt Hoare of Stourhead. She was a talented artist and a pupil of Francis Nicholson who dedicated his book 'The practice of Drawing and Painting Landscape from Nature in Watercolours' to her. She married her cousin Sir Thomas Dyke Acland (1752-1794) of Killerton, in 1785. Not long afterwards they employed Francis Towne to sketch on their land on and around Exmoor. Their orders for studio versions and other sketches from him made them Towne's major documented client of the post-Italy phase of his career. Towne's work was clearly a strong influence on Henrietta Fortescue's own painting style Following the death of her first husband in 1794, Henrietta married Captain Hon. Matthew Fortescue R.N., brother of the first Earl Fortescue