拍品專文
Hetty was the youngest daughter of Benjamin Goldsmid and his wife Jessie. Little is known of her short life, other than that she married James Henry Deacon of Curzon Street in 1815, the year before her death. For further information on the Goldsmid family, please see the essay for lot 1041.
A preparatory watercolour sketch of the present portrait was sold by John Nicholson Fine Art Auctioneers, 5 November 2016, lot 162.