Live Auction 8999Colefax and Fowler, Then and Now: Collections From Hambleden Manor, Lushill, and 39 Brook Street, Mayfair
M.E.D. Bristow, Circa 1900
Lot 264

M.E.D. Bristow, Circa 1900

Portrait of Lady Esther Smith, three-quarter-length, wearing a white chiffon dress with a pink carnation

Closed10 July 2013

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GBP 8,125

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M.E.D. Bristow, Circa 1900
Portrait of Lady Esther Smith, three-quarter-length, wearing a white chiffon dress with a pink carnation
signed with initials and dated 'E.D.B. 1900' (lower right) and further signed and inscribed 'No */The Lady Esther Smith/M E. D. Bristow (Miss)/11 Queen's Gardens./Hyde Park. W.' (on the artist's label on the reverse)
oil on canvas
56 x 44 in. (142.2 x 111.8 cm.)

Lady Esther Smith, and by descent at Hambleden Manor, Buckinghamshire.

Specialist note

Lady Esther Smith, née Gore was the daughter of Arther Gore, 5th Earl of Arran and wife of William Frederick Danvers Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden (1869-1928). Lot 337 in this sale is a writing table, once in the collection of Lady Esther Smith.