Live Auction 8433Victorian & British Impressionist Art
Jacques Emile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Lot 87

Jacques Emile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)

Portrait of The Honourable Mrs Charles Russell, née Adah Williams (1868-1959), half-length, in a brown dress

Closed13 March 2013

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GBP 7,500

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Jacques Emile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Portrait of The Honourable Mrs Charles Russell, née Adah Williams (1868-1959), half-length, in a brown dress
signed and indistinctly inscribed 'JE Blanche' (lower right)
oil on canvas
33 x 26½ in. (83.8 x 67.3 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 3 December 1985, lot 187.

Specialist note

The second wife of Charles Arthur Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Killowen (1832-1900), Lord Chief Justice, Adah Russell was also painted by John Singer Sargent in 1900, and this portrait probably dates from the same period.

We are grateful to Jane Roberts for her assistance in cataloguing this picture.