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Clarissa Penelope Pritchard. Sarah was a talented and prolific artist, known as "Sarah, Viscountess Malden", and from 1799 as "Sarah, Countess of Essex", who specialised in making watercolour copies of old portraits and other paintings, and her surviving copies in many instances are the only
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627:Westminster
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1058:7 December
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791:References
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547:Royal Navy
509:Early life
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676:in 1810.
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