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====== Jane Ellery (1745-1787), By John Durand ======

{{jane_ellery.jpg|Jane Ellery (1745-1787), by John Durand}}

**JANE ELLERY (1745-1787), BY JOHN DURAND**

This beautiful and fashionable lady of quality was a great-aunt of Governor
Thomas Hart Seymour. She was a daughter of John Ellery and Mary Austin of
Hartford, where she was born December 1745, and where she died unmarried,
August 23, 1787, at the age of forty-two. The canvas, measuring 24 x 29, is
probably by John Durand, and therefore of particular interest, as few examples
of the work of this artist are owned in Connecticut; presented October 13, 1841,
by Major Henry Seymour, Governor Seymour's father, to the Connecticut Historical
Society. A portrait of her brother, William Ellery (1740-1812), was presented by
Major Henry Seymour at the same time to the Historical Society, but it has
disappeared.

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