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Spriggs & Binyon Family Portraits. A group of six head and shoulder portraits of members of the Spriggs/Binyon families, circa 1850s, oil on canvas, each 22 x 18.5 cm (8 3/4 x 7 1/4 ins), gilt oval mats, framed with old and modern manuscript paper labels to versos, 34 x 31 cm (and one of Martha Spriggs slightly larger) (Quantity: 6) Provenance: from the family of Martha Spriggs (1777-1866), by direct descent. The sitters are: 1) William Spriggs (1776-1855), draper of Broad Street, Worcester. 2) Martha Spriggs (1777-1866), nee Knight, wife of William Spriggs of Worcester. 3) Thomas Binyon (1795-1865), of Manchester and Henwick Grove, Worcester; husband of Sarah Fryer (d. 1826), Rachel Arch (1817-1845), and Martha Anna Spriggs (1816-1896), youngest daughter of William and Martha Spriggs. 4) Martha Anna Binyon (1816-1896), daughter of William and Martha Spriggs of Worcester; third wife of Thomas Binyon. 5) Hester Savory Spriggs (1818-1889), daughter of William and Martha Spriggs of Worcester. 6) Lydia Pengelly (1819-1898), daughter of William and Martha Spriggs of Worcester; second wife of William Pengelly of Torquay.