Brontë sisters.- Shipton (Martha) Crofton Hall, near Wakefield, 1809.

Brontë sisters.- Shipton (Martha, active 1800-1810) Crofton Hall, near Wakefield, pen and black ink, watercolour, signed in the lower left with title inscribed in the lower centre, on wove paper without watermark, sheet 355 x 410 mm (14 x 16 1/8 in), laid onto modern paper support, large repaired tear in the upper centre, other small areas of repairs, unframed, 1809.

⁂ Richmall Mangnall (1769-1820), the English schoolmistress and writer of a famous schoolbook Mangnall's Questions, attended the school at Crofton Hall, where in 1808 she graduated from being a pupil to become a teacher there. The eldest two Brontë sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, briefly attended the school in 1823, following a recommendation from Elizabeth Firth to their father Patrick Brontë.