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Miss Catherine St. Aubyn||1836| Miss Catherine ST. Aubyn (died 1836), amateur artist, second daughter of Sir John St. Aubyn, fourth baronet, of Clowance in Cornwall, and sister of Sir John St. Aubyn (1758–1839), is known by a few privately printed etchings which she produced in 1788 and 1789. These comprise portraits of Lady St. Aubyn and Dolly Pentreath [see Jeffery, Dorothy], from pictures by Reynolds and Opie in her father's possession; a portrait of her sister, Mrs. Robert White; and a view of St. Michael's Mount. Two drawings by her of St. Michael's Mount were engraved by William Austin (1721–1820) Miss St. Aubyn married, on 26 June 1790, her cousin John Molesworth (d 1811), rector of St. Breocke, Cornwall, second son of Sir John Molesworth, bart., of Pencarrow, and died on 21 October 1836. Her eldest son John (d. 1844), who took the name St. Aubyn, succeeded to the St. Aubyn estates.[DNB 1][DNB 2][DNB 3][DNB 4][1]


References[edit]

  1. [[Template:Cite DNB|vb=yes|author=Template:DNB FMO'D|title=St. Aubyn, Catherine (DNB00)|work=Dictionary of National Biography|volume=50|pages=0|url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St._Aubyn,_Catherine_(DNB00)]]

DNB references[edit]

These references are found in the DNB article referred to above.

  1. Redgrave's Dictionary of Artists
  2. Dodd's Memoirs of English Engravers (British Museum Add. manuscript 33394)
  3. Burke's Landed Gentry, 1894, ii. 1770
  4. Parochial History of Cornwall, i. 272.

External links[edit]

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