JOHN MACALLAN SWAN, R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1847-1910)

Lot 138
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Lot 138 | JOHN MACALLAN SWAN, R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1847-1910)
Valeur estimée
£ 10 000 – 15 000
JOHN MACALLAN SWAN, R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1847-1910)

Portrait of Miss Elfrida Marjorie Eden, later Countess of Warwick (1887- 1943), as a child, full-length standing on a sofa

signed 'JOHN.M.SWAN.' (lower left)

oil on canvas

54 1/4 x 40 in. (137.8 x 101.6 cm.)

Executed circa 1893.





Provenance

Commissioned directly from the artist by Sir William Eden, 7th Baronet (1849-1915) for £450.

Possibly, with The Goupil Gallery, London, 1893.

Probably, with The Fine Art Society, London, circa 1893.

William Lawson Peacock (†); Christie's, London, 6 February 1925, lot 143 as 'Portrait of Lady Brooke, as a child, in embroidered white frock' (9 gns to Mrs Lewis).

Acquired by The Earl of Avon from Miss Edith Jeffrey, The Cavendish Hotel.



Literature

Sir William Eden to David Croal Thompson, 26 October 1893, GUL E20; GUW 01032, (2022-09-07), The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari, On-line edition, University of Glasgow, http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence

James Whistler to David Croal Thompson, [27 March 1895], LOC PWC; GUW 08302, (2022-09-07).

Elbert J. Van Wisselingh to James Whistler, 29 March 1895, GUL W1093; GUW 07014, (2022-09-07).

Elbert J. Van Wisselingh to James Whistler, 3 November 1897, GUL W1094; GUW 07015, (2022-09-07).



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