 :::I've just spotted that Seymour (haven't actually read this daunting whatshehadforbreakfaster yet) has a note saying that Lady Shelley commissioned Easton to copy Amelia Curran's portrait of Shelley, and that at the same time he painted twin miniatures of Shelley and Mary. Seymour thinks that the portraits were probably done in 1857, when Easton was staying at Boscombe.   :::Original thought alert: I expect he was copying from something provided by Lady Shelley, but I'm also convinced he was using the famous Rothwell portrait. Seymour notes that Mary has the same circlet clasping her shawl in both. More particularly, I note that Mary here looks much more like she does in the Rothwell than she does in the other portraits of her reproduced by Seymour—look how similar the hairstyles are, for example. I have the knack (it's not an art) of likenesses myself, and it's easy enough to transpose facial positions and move a face round from one position to another). On a sidenote, I find the differences between the various portraits of Mary to be disconcerting. I suspect we don't really know what she looked like when young (I refuse to believe that she was as drippy as Easton makes her look!); I'm glad about that.   