Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1840

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by Richard Rothwell, oil on canvas, exhibited 1840

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Richard Rothwell, 1840

Bequeathed by the sitter’s daughter-in-law, Jane, Lady Shelley, 1899

Via: National Portrait Gallery

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