Dear all, Alexander Ogilvie DIXSON, my 3x great-grandfather, was at various times Collector of Customs for Newcastle and Stockton and died in May 1861. He is buried at Jesmond (I have a photo of his gravestone). In his will of July 1850 he left to his daughter Julia, among other things, a portrait of himself, stating that "after the decease or marriage of my said daughter which shall first happen, then upon trust to sell the same (that is all the other bits he had left her) except the portrait of myself...". Julia died unmarried at Headington, Bucks, in 1884, and her only surviving family of nieces and nephews were still living in Newcastle. These nieces and nephews were the children of Julia's sister Jane Angellica, wife of the solicitor Henry STORY of Newcastle. I had wondered whether perhaps after Julia's death the painting was returned to the family in Newcastle or perhaps made its way back to the Customs House in Newcastle or Stockton, or to some other location in the Newcastle area. If anyone knows anything about the painting, I'd be keen to hear of it - I'd like to get a photo if at all possible. With thanks Alison :-) Sydney Australia