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Sitter/Title: Isabella Anne Hutchinson, Mrs Jens Wolff (?1771-1829) Qualifier: by Artist(s): Sir Thomas Lawrence Medium: oil on canvas Credit line: © National Trust Images / National Portrait Gallery, London Measurements: 584 x 470 mm (23 x 18 1/2 in) (Sight Size) 585 x 470 mm (Part) Caption: Oil painting on canvas, Isabella Anne Hutchinson, Mrs Jens Wolff (?1771-1829) by Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA, Bristol 1769 - London 1830), circa 1803. An oval bust-length portrait of Isabella Anne, third daughter of Norton Hutchingson, of Woodhall Park, Hertforshire. She married Jens Wolff of Sherwood Lodge Battersea, who was Danish Consul in London in 1792. They separated in 1810. A close friend of Lawrence, Miss Elizabeth Croft refers to a large portrait exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1815 and now in the Art Insitute of Chicago, as having been started in 1803 and to the present oil sketch probably having been painted at the same time as the original sittings for it. She also sat in for the hands and drapery. She was rumoured to have been Lawrence's lover and that Hermann was their son.