Mrs Paine and the Misses Paine, 1765 (oil on canvas)

Charlotte Beaumont, Mrs James Paine (d.1766) wife of architect James Paine, and her daughters Charlotte Paine, later Mrs St John Charlton (b.1751) and Mary 'Polly' Paine, later Mrs Tilly Kettle (1753-1798) wife of the painter Tilly Kettle (1735-86). See companion piece of James Paine and his son James AMO1216672. Miss Paines wearing pale blue and pink dresses, seated at a harpsichord with dog on a stool in the left foreground. Open music score on harpsichord. Red curtain background on right with view through window into cloudy skies on left. The sheet music in the original painting is a Scottish song by Alan Ramsey, set to an air by Michael Arne: Oh Sawny why leaves thou thy Nelly to mourn, Thy presence could ease me, When naithing could please me, Now, Dowie, I sigh on the banks of the burn, Or thro’ the wood laddie until thou return.