Live Auction 2385Christie's Interiors
Edward Hughes (1832-1908)
Lot 399 THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE LADY KING OF WARTNABY

Edward Hughes (1832-1908)

Portrait of Vere Monckton-Arundell, seated three-quarter-length, in a white evening dress holding lilies in a landscape

Closed4 October 2011

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GBP 2,500

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Edward Hughes (1832-1908)
Portrait of Vere Monckton-Arundell, seated three-quarter-length, in a white evening dress holding lilies in a landscape
signed and dated 'Edward Hughes/1889' (lower left)
oil on canvas, unframed
52½ x 38¼ in. (133.4 x 97.3 cm.)

George Edmund Milnes Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway (1844-1931) and thence by descent.

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Vere Monckton-Arundell (née Gosling) was the only daughter of Ellis Gosling of Busbridge Hall, Surrey. She married the 7th Viscount Galway in 1879. She was invested as a Lady of Justice, Order of St. John of Jerusalem (L.J.St.J.).