This pair of well-drawn and characterful pencil and watercolour portraits showing George Drayton and his wife Sarah was likely taken in 1773 to mark their marriage. George looks exceedingly dapper in his striped waistcoat, frilled chemise and well-cut coat with its large buttons and deep collar. Sarah’s attire appears more sober though she has a ribbon choker and a generously trimmed dormeuse cap that rises at the back to cover her fashionably high hair-style.George Drayton was born in Atherstone, Warwickshire in June 1739. He was 34 when he married 30-year-old Sarah Box with whom he had eight children. George was a mercer and draper; having been employed in Gloucester by a Mr Everard, he took over the shop in June 1773 – just a month before his marriage. Stocking linen, woollen and haberdashery, he also advertised silky stuffs, silk handkerchiefs, Irish of all breadths, printed cottons, figured dimities and finally shrouds! Two years later George unexpectedly announced that he was...