Joseph Farington (and his diary) [ Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters / Communication ]
… to Farington’s information (from the painter Robert Smirke) that the first Mrs Opie had already had two illegitimate children when Opie married her – something of which Opie was equally unaware. The children were raised elsewhere but when the son was arrested in his teens for stealing a watch and incarcerated in …
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