These delightful portraits, painted by Easy Anglian artist George Roth during the 1770s, depict a mother, Anne James, and her eldest daughter, Ann.Anne Senior is shown wearing a plum coloured dress with a lace handkerchief fastened at the front and matching dormeuse cap over her upswept and powdered wig. Her ribbon necklace is tied at the back as was the fashion during the 1770s and 80s. Anne Price was born in Powys in 1720 and married John James of Moor Court, Herefordshire in 1742, being the sole heiress to her father’s estate. They had six children; Ann died in 1789.Anne Junior is shown wearing a narrow-fitting pale blue décolleté gown with a ribbon bow on her corsage. Her upswept and powdered hair is draped with a gauze veil. Born at Moor Court in 1748, Ann was John and Anne James’s second child and eldest daughter. On 1 March 1781, she married Dr Richard Crowther as his second wife. Crowther, an eminent London surgeon, was fifteen years Ann’s senior and died in 1789. The c...