Live Auction 2023Christie's Interiors
Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples (1853-1943)
Lot 341

Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples (1853-1943)

Portrait of Baroness Burdett Coutts

Closed20 September 2011

Price Realised

GBP 812

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Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples (1853-1943)
Portrait of Baroness Burdett Coutts
signed with monogram and dated '1893/by PS in' (lower right); and indistinctly inscribed 'B***s***f/Burdett Coutts' (on a label lower right)
pencil and coloured chalks
6¾ x 4¼ in. (17.2 x 10.8 cm.)

Specialist note

Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts was the first woman to be made Baroness in her own right. She devoted herself to works of charity building churchs and schools and was raised to the peerage in 1871 becoming the Baroness of Highgate and Brookfield.