Daniel Graham (c. 1695 - March 1778) was

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to King George II,

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and Chelsea College Hospital. He was the son of

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(c. 1666 - 1733) who was apothecary to King George I and George II, and was apothecary general to the British army.

''The Graham Children''

Around 1742, Daniel Graham commissioned

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to paint a portrait of his children. Hogarth produced ''The Graham Children'', one of his most successful

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s (an informal group portrait of family or friends, often engaged in conversation or some other kind of activity). From left to right in the picture are Thomas, born 1740 and dressed in skirts as was typical for small boys until they were breeched, Henrietta (later mother of the economist

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), Anna Maria and

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.Note the children are misidentified in Einberg's ''Manners & Morals'', corrected in her ''Hogarth the Painter''. The painting is noted for its many references to mortality, the passing of time and the fragility of life as Thomas had died by the time the painting was completed. It remained in the ownership of Richard Robert Graham, depicted on the far right of the painting, at least until his death in 1816. It then had several owners before it was acquired by Lord Duveen who presented it to the British

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in 1934.''The Tate Gallery: An Illustrated Companion to the National Collections of British & Modern Foreign Art''. London: Tate Gallery, 1979, p. 15.

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The Graham family of Harrow.
*http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C169406 *http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40580#s3 1778 deaths 1690s births Year of birth uncertain English apothecaries {{England-med-bio-stub