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Lucy Randolph Burwell
Lucy Randolph Burwell (c.1744-1802) belonged to one of the wealthiest families and so posed in an elegant gown
and headdress of the latest style. She plays a string instrument but does so idly, a fashionable accomplishment rather
than a passion. Virginia's ruling elite had intermarried for a century, and Lucy Randolph maintained this tradition by
marrying Lewis Burwell of Kengsmill plantation in James City County when she was twenty. The portrait was
painted c.1773, probably by Matthew Pratt.
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