The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma

The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma

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Princess Patricia of Connaught, later Lady Ramsay

A Temple in Sri Lanka

Auction Closed

March 24, 08:41 PM GMT

Estimate

200 - 250 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Princess Patricia of Connaught, later Lady Ramsay

1886 - 1974

A Temple in Sri Lanka


signed with initials lower left: VPR

oil on board

40.5 x 35.5 cm.

London, The Goupil Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by the Lady Patricia Ramsay, May 1928, no. 71 as In Ceylon.
Princess Patricia was the daughter of Queen Victoria's third son, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and his wife The Princess Louise of Prussia. As a young girl she lived with her parents in India and Canada where her father was Governor General. She had a deep affinity with that country and became Colonel in Chief of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (the last private regiment raised in the British Empire). She held the position through her long life and when she died in 1974 she was succeeded by her cousin, goddaughter and namesake Patricia, Countess Mountbatten. In Canada she is also commemorated by Lake Patricia in Alberta and The Patricia State Highway in British Columbia. She was a talented watercolourist: her work often inspired as here by her extensive travels.