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Lot 61
  • 61

Brontë, Charlotte.

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Portrait of a Young Woman.
  • PENCIL DRAWING ON PAPER
160 by 120mm., pencil drawing, inscribed by Patrick Brontë "By my daughter, Charlotte | P. Bronte, Min[iste]r.", framed and glazed, slight spotting

Provenance

J. Horsfall Turner; and thence by family descent

Literature

Alexander and Sellars 134

Catalogue Note

This portrait of a young woman was printed, as a frontispiece illustration of Anne Brontë, within The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in the Thornton edition of the Novels of the Brontës (Edinburgh, 1907). The original was untraced by Christine Alexander and Jane Sellars for their The art of the Brontës (Cambridge, 1995). Attribution of the subject of this drawing as Anne Brontë is, as described by Alexander and Sellars, "suspect".

The sheet (with a 'Dobbs London' embossed stamp at the head) was evidently cut from a larger sheet for the reverse reveals a trimmed section of an entirely unknown pencil drawing showing trees by an abbey wall. The style of this drawing strongly suggests Charlotte as the artist.

We are grateful to Christine Alexander for her assistance in the cataloguing of these lots.