Live Auction 8012Lyons Demesne Works of Art from The Collection of The Late Dr. Tony Ryan
English School, 19th Century
Lot 275

English School, 19th Century

Double portrait of Emma and Lorna Bagnell, full-length, one in red dress, seated on a stool, the other in a blue dress, standing holding a garland of holly between them, in an interior

Closed14 July 2011

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GBP 15,000

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English School, 19th Century
Double portrait of Emma and Lorna Bagnell, full-length, one in red dress, seated on a stool, the other in a blue dress, standing holding a garland of holly between them, in an interior
oil on canvas
72¼ x 54¼ in. (183.5 x 137.7 cm.)
in a contemporary gilded composition frame

By inheritance through Emma Bagnell, who married Charles Edward Keyser, at Aldermaston Court.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 28 November 2000, lot 44 (£35,000).

Specialist note

Emma Bagnell (shown standing to the right) and Lorna Bagnell (shown seated), were the daughters of a Yorkshire family, which made its fortune in iron. Lorna married a solicitor, George Lynn and Emma married Charles Edward Keyser of Aldermaston Court, where she lived until her death in 1937. The Bagnell family was declared bankrupt circa 1890, and this family portrait as well as furniture went to Aldermaston with Emma, where it passed by inheritance in the Keyser family.