
The answer is Elizabeth Bromley Brown, wife of the artist Ford Maddox Brown, whose series of grand paintings depicting moments from the history of Manchester I have just been marvelling over.
"I am by birth a free Commoner of England, and am thereby intailed or intituled unto an equall priviledge with your selfe, or the greatest men in England, unto the freedome and liberty of the Lawes of England." William Thompson, 14. of December, 1647
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Wow. She looks like Frida (aka Salma Hayek)
One looks at these and thinks about the people they were and became - all gone, all gone now.
All gone, indeed. All fled.
I think she looks a bit like Jack White.
I see your point Sean
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