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The Onslow Ford Family and Newton Hall Clothilde Enid (1877-1952), daughter of Victorian artist and sculptor Edward Onslow Ford, R.A. (1852-1901) married firstly Philip Riviere and secondly Brigadier-General Bertram Fitzherbert Widdrington (1873-1942) in 1912. Clothilde was painted by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema in 1888 and together with her brothers Rudolph (b.1875), Wolfram (b.1877) and Max (b.1883); father of surrealist painter Gordon Max Onslow Ford (1912-2003), grew up amidst the artistic milieu occupied by their father and his fellow Royal Academicians.

WOLFRAM ONSLOW FORD (BRITISH, BORN 1880)

Portrait of Clothilde Enid Widdrington, née Onlsow Ford (1877-1952), bust-length, in profile, in a cream dress

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WOLFRAM ONSLOW FORD (BRITISH, BORN 1880)
Portrait of Clothilde Enid Widdrington, née Onlsow Ford (1877-1952), bust-length, in profile, in a cream dress
oil on panel, unframed
13 x 9¼ in. (33 x 23.5 cm.)

Literature

Inventory and Valuation of the contents of Newton Hall, Felton, Morpeth, Northumberland, The Property of Brigadier General B. F. Widdrington, C.M.G., D.S.O., 1925, p. 138.

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