Elizabeth Adela Stanhope Forbes, R.A. (1859-1912)

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Elizabeth Adela Stanhope Forbes, R.A. (1859-1912)

Portrait of Cicely Tennyson-Jesse

signed upper left E A Forbes, charcoal, watercolour and bodycolour
13½ x 9½in. (34.2 x 24cm.)

Provenance

A gift from the artist to the sitter, thence by descent to Tom Luck, 1948, by whom gifted to the present owner in 1977

Lot Essay

The sitter became Mrs. Charles Cardale Luck. She was a close friend of the artist and she attended the Forbes' art school in Newlyn, together with Alfred Munnings and Laura Knight, with her husband (see lot 1)

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