Jane Hawkins (1841–1904) was a

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portrait painter from

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who exhibited at the

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and with the

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. Hawkins public paintings are mostly of political individuals especially those of the family of the

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. Hawkins produced portraits some copying the styles of Francis Grant and

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. Many of her paintings of the Smith-Stanley family of

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are in the collection of

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since 1947.

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