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| Picture No | 10285533 |
| Date | 11th December 1920 |
| Description | Mrs Sloper and her Children |
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The original painting was long regarded as showing Mrs Goddard and her children, with the dead mother in the sky looking down at her daughters on earth. It was then revealed that it wasn't Mrs William Goddard, daughter of General Sloper, but his wife, Mrs Sloper. Mrs Goddard was not married when Gainsborough died in 1788, and she died in 1798.
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| Source | Thomas Gainsborough in The Illustrated London News, 11th December 1920, page 972 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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