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Mrs Peter How and her Two Children, Peter and Christian

James, the Elder Cranke, 1760–1770

The Beacon Museum, Whitehaven

Peter How was an important Whitehaven merchant with a fortune based on the tobacco trade. He had interests in coal and iron-ore mines and set up an iron-working forge at Low Mill in 1750. Debts incurred by the forge and the decline in the tobacco trade may have contributed to his bankruptcy in 1763. This portrait shows his second wife, Christian Crakeplace with the two children.

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Title of artwork, date

Mrs Peter How and her Two Children, Peter and Christian, 1760–1770

Date supported

1986

Medium and material

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

150 x 226 cm

Grant

2050

Total cost

8500

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