Live Auction 16224British Impressionism
Sir Oswald Joseph Hornby Birley, R.P., R.O.I. (1880-1952)
Lot 25

Sir Oswald Joseph Hornby Birley, R.P., R.O.I. (1880-1952)

Portrait of Mark Birley (1930-2007), as a boy

Closed20 November 2018

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GBP 32,500

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Sir Oswald Joseph Hornby Birley, R.P., R.O.I. (1880-1952)
Portrait of Mark Birley (1930-2007), as a boy
signed and dated 'O H B/1938' (lower right) and inscribed 'To Rhoda' (lower left)
oil on canvas, unframed
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)

Specialist note

Mark Birley was the son of the society portrait painter Sir Oswald Birley and his wife Rhoda, to whom this portrait is dedicated. In 1963 he founded  the renowned members club Annabel's, in Mayfair, named after his then wife, Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart.