Portrait
A watercolour portrait of Bate as a young woman, drawn by her sister, is at the Natural History Museum. In it she wears a black dress trimmed with white lace, and a large pink rose.
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“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
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