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A family group
c
.1645, in part by William Dobson; the four skulls on the broken column at which the father gazes mournfully refer to his dead children, evidently not forgotten despite the high incidence of infant death.

A rich merchant, Sir Robert Vyner, and his family: Lady Vyner had been a wealthy widow when he married her. Pepys admired her both for her looks and her fortune. Painted by John Michael Wright.

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