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The confusion as has arisen between the two step-sisters in connection with this whole length Gainsborough portrait is easily explained by the fact that the old Peerages described the Hon. Anne Duncombe (Countess of Radnor) as being the only daughter of Anthony Baron Fever-sham. (Gainsborough painted another portrait of the Hon. Frances Duncombe, and this forms one of a series of six family portraits (each 30 in. by 25 in.) done for the Earl of Radnor by Gainsborough from 1773 to 1776, and for which the Earl paid $250 in September, 1774.) Among this series is also a portrait of the Hon. Anne Duncombe before she became the Countess of Radnor. These portraits are now at Longford Castle, near Salisbury.