JOHN DONALDSON (SCOTTISH, 1737-1801)
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JOHN DONALDSON (SCOTTISH, 1737-1801)

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JOHN DONALDSON (SCOTTISH, 1737-1801)
Sarah Garrow, née Dore (d. 1808), in white dress with fichu, a pink bandeau and string of pearls in her powdered curling hair
on ivory
oval, 2¼ in. (58 mm.) high, gold frame, the reverse engraved 'Sarah Garrow / Obt<\sup>. 30t<\sup>h<\sup> June, 1808. / AEt 56.'
Provenance
Christie's, London, 11 May 1994, lot 61.
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Lot Essay

Sarah Garrow, née Dore (d. 1808) was the wife of the barrister and judge, William Garrow (1760-1840). Little is known of her background before her relationship with Arthur William Moyes Hill, later 2nd Marquess of Downshire, with whom she had a son, William Arthur Dore-Hill (b. 1778). Around 1780, Sarah began a relationship with William Garrow and had two children by him, David William (1781-1827) and Eliza Sophia (1783-1857), although they did not marry until March 1793, more than a decade after the birth of their first child together.

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