EDWARD BOWER | PORTRAIT OF A LADY, HALF-LENGTH, WEARING A BLACK DRESS WITH BROAD LACE COLLAR, PEARLS, HAIR RIBBONS, AND HOLDING A BOUQUET OF ROSES

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 22 May 1918, lot 63 (as Cornelius Johnson), bt. Gooden & Fox for William Lever for £30;

William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, hanging at The Hulme Art Gallery (as Cornelius Johnson) as of 17 October 1918, then to Thornton Manor, Wirral, Merseyside;

Leverhulme Collection sale, Sotheby's, 27 June 2001, lot 372 (as Attributed to Edward Bower);

Where acquired.

Edward Bower was a portraitist whose clientele consisted mainly of Parliamentarian patrons during the British Civil War, although he famously painted the last portrait of King Charles I during his trial in 1648.