Kenneth Macleay

A pair of portraits of John Neil Dyce (c.1810-1880) of Castlebank House, South Lanarkshire, and his wife Elizabeth Hamilton Bowie (1825-1916), circa 1840

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Lot Closed

April 28, 04:06 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important British Private Collection

Kenneth Macleay

Oban 1803 - 1878 Edinburgh

A pair of portraits of John Neil Dyce (c.1810-1880) of Castlebank House, South Lanarkshire, and his wife Elizabeth Hamilton Bowie (1825-1916), circa 1840

Both watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, wash card mounts, gilt-wood frames

Each circa 150 by 107 mm.

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John Neil Dyce of Castlebank, Lanarkshire, received a Master of Arts from the University of Cambridge. Later he became a lawyer, and served in the Madras Cavalry. His wife, Elizabeth, was the daughter of John Bowie, a writer to the Signet in Edinburgh. Their son, the Rev. Alexander Frederick Dyce, is known as a donor to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

We are grateful to Neil Jeffaries for his help when cataloguing this lot.