Live Auction 5903Christie's Interiors
Christie’s roundel
Lot 423 THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLEMAN

George Richmond, R.A. (1806-1896)

Portraits of Edward Hugh Leycester-Penrhyn; and Vere Leycester-Penrhyn

Closed19 May 2009

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GBP 750

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George Richmond, R.A. (1806-1896)
Portraits of Edward Hugh Leycester-Penrhyn; and Vere Leycester-Penrhyn
the first signed and dated 'George Richmond deln. 1853' and further inscribed 'Edward Hugh Leycester Penrhyn/Born 1827./Painted by George Richmond' (on an old label attached to the reverse); and the other inscribed 'Vere Leycester-Penrhyn née Gosling/Born 1829/By George Richmond' (on an old label attached to the reverse)
pencil and watercolour heightened with white
15½ x 12¼ in. (39.3 x 31.1 cm.)
a pair (2)

Specialist note

The artist's index of sitters formerly in the possession of the artist's great granddaughter Mrs Miriam Harley, and reproduced in Raymond Lister's monograph (op.cit.) records Mr Penrhyn as having sat for Richmond in 1853 and charged £42.