Lot 46
  • 46

Annabella Milnes, Lady Houghton

Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Annabella Milnes, Lady Houghton
  • PORTRAITS OF LADY HOUGHTON'S DAUGHTERS AMICIA AND FLORENCE MILNES, c.1863; PORTRAIT OF LADY HOUGHTON'S SON ROBERT OFFLEY AHSBURTON MILNES, c.1863
  • both watercolour, circular
  • each 51cm., 20in. diameter

Literature

James Pope-Hennesey, Monckton Milnes - The Flight of Youth, 1951, both illustrated in colour on dustjacket and between p.174-5

Condition

Each work bears some spots of foxing and surface dirt. There appears to be a small repaired puncture above head of the right hand girl in one picture, and a small crease in the jacket of the boy. Held under glass in matching gilt composite frames; unexamined out of frame.
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