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Notes: Exhibited:British Institution 1816, no.34
Note:A similar subject is depicted in Sir Henry Raeburn's celebrated double portrait of General and Mrs Francis Dundas playing chess currently hanging in Arniston House (see below).The footnote to the catalogue entry in the 1997/98 Raeburn exhibition held at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh and the National Portrait Gallery, London comments "It seems not unlikely that one influenced the other,but which is not clear" - in both paintings the woman comes out the winner.