GEORGE ROMNEY (1734-1802) MARY FINCH-HATTON Canvas, 25 inches by 30 inches HALF-LENGTH, nearly full face, dressed in a white muslin gown edged with blue. Her powdered hair is arranged in many curls, while some of it falls down her back. She was the daughter of Sir John Finch Hatton, of Long Stanton Hall, near Cambridge, and wife of Hale Wortham, Esq, of Royston, Herts. This portrait was painted in 1788, as indicated in the entry in Romney's ledger: "Hatton (or Hatton) Miss 28 Wimplole Street Three-quarters. Sitting, &c 1788, April 1, 5, 12, 14, 17. Sent to Lady Hatton"s, Long Stanton, Cambridgeshire, Oct. 1, 1788, 1788, Oct. 6, received of Mr. Daws for Mrs. Hatton, 3-qrs. $26.10m." From Humphry Ward's Work on Romney. Vol. 11., p. 73, Catalogue Raisonne. This picture comes from the family. Exhibited at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1910. The Finch-Hattons were descended from the Earls of Winnchilsea and Nottingham. Edward, the fifth son of Daniel Finch, second Earl of Nottingham and sixth Earl of Winchildsea, assumed, in 1764, the additional name of Hatton under the will of his aunt Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher, Vis-count Hatton. 89 LW