Hello All, In a book called "At Home with Beatrix Potter", by Susan Denyer, there is a description of the parlor at Beatrix's house, Hilltop, which involves some portraits from a house called Belmount which Beatrix had bought from an American woman named Rebecca Owen in 1937. The passage goes as follows: The fireplace is flanked by silhouettes. Some of the silhouettes came from Belmount. Coincidentally, in sorting out Rebecca Owen's papers after her death, Beatrix came across a pedigree of her mother's family traced back to 'Simon Sackett 1602-1645, colonist,...understood to have been a native of Ely'. She wrote of three of the silhouettes: 'I think these are Miss Owen's maternal grandparents and Aunt Sackett.' The 'shades', as Beatrix called them, are oval in simple cushion frames. One shows a lady in a bonnet." I looked up Miss Owen in the Sacketts book, she is #4979, daughter of Catherine Ann Sackett (#2239) and Henry Owen, and is listed as living at Belmont Hall, Outgate, Ambleside, England, at the time the book was written. There is a photograph of the fireplace in the book and one can just see the silhouettes but they are too small in the picture to see very clearly. The house is in the Lake District and belongs to the National Trust. Earlier in the book is this quote from Beatrix Potter's writing: ('Rebecca Owen... is an American who has lived for a great many years near Hawkshead - a remarkable old person, must be nearly 80; lipstick, pink nails, a handsome car, and lives in a large house alone.') According to the book, Beatrix also brought some of Miss Owen's American furniture to Hilltop where it can still be seen. This is a very beautiful book, by the way. Hope this is of interest. Regards, Barbara Bell