For some time she has given up oil in favour of
water-colour painting.
In earlier life Lady Duckett had not the advan-
tage of an art education such as ladies can now readily
obtain, but she has a great fondness for painting, and
devotes all her time to it.
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OOPHIA, Lady Dunbar, is the daughter of George
Orred, Esq., of Tranmere, Cheshire, and the
second wife of Sir Archibald Dunbar, Bart., of North-
field, Elginshire, to whom she was married in 1840.
From her earliest childhood she was fond of
sketching fi-om nature. Her chief means of study
and improvement were looking at pictures, and taking
hints from such artists as she happened to meet
x4.mong her few nominal instructors was an artist
named Le Capelin, of Jersey. He had a peculiar style
of his own, admirably adapted to render the misty
beauties of the shores of the Channel Islands, and
Lady Dunbar's early pictures reflected this manner
in some degree.
Lady -Dunbar exhibited first with the Society of
Female Artists, in Conduit Street, in 1863. Since
then, her works have appeared also at the Royal
Scottish Academy, and at exhibitions in London and
the provinces.
At the Royal Academy, where she appears this year
(1876) for the first time. Lady Dunbar has a picture
entitled *' Olive Oil Mills at Bordighera.'* The place
from which the scene is taken is one famous for palm
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