This handsome pair of gilded profiles were painted in 1821 to mark the marriage in November that year of the Rev. George Ernest Howman and Jane Knightley. The marriage was announced by the Oxford Journal –*''On Thursday last, was married at St Mary-le-bone Church, London, by the Rev Arthur Edward Howman, Vicar of Shiplake, the Rev George Ernest Howman, of Balliol College to Jane Sarah Wightwick, eldest daughter of the late John Wightwick Knightley Esq. of Offchurch Bury, Warwickshire.''*Born in 1797, Jane Sarah Wightwick Knightly was brought up at Offchurch Bury, a fine historic manor house in Warwickshire. Also born in 1797, her husband George Ernest Howman was the son of a vicar and he too joined the Church after graduating from Oxford. The couple set up home at Newbold Pacey Hall near Stratford-upon-Avon and had four children. Jane died in 1845 at the age of 48. George Ernest married a second time at the age of 56 and had another son. He was 81 when he died in 1878.<...