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Portrait of Charles Bray

Watercolour portrait of a man. He has big hair and has a high white colour with a dark scarf and light coloured jacket.

A watercolour of Charles Bray probably painted by his sister-in-law Sara Hennell, Charles or his wife Cara. They were all friends of George Eliot. Charles Bray was a prosperous ribbon manufacturer who owned the Coventry Herald newspaper. Cara and Charles’ home, Rosehill, became a centre for radical thinking on religion and politics.

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