Another portrait of Effie Stillman, painted three years before lot 93 and showing the influence of the artist's master, Ford Madox Brown. When only two months old Effie had been described by William Michael Rossetti as a 'more than commonly well-looking and well-grown infant', and when Marie took her to call on D.G. Rossetti in December 1877, he wrote to Janey Morris that he was 'most charmed with little Effie, who will be extremely like her mother' (see Attwood, op. cit., p. 49). The garden in which whe is seen here may be that of 'The Shrubbery', a Georgian house (still standing) on the north side of Clapham Common, where her grandfather, Michael Spartali, lived, and which her mother continued to use as a base after she moved to Italy