Lot Essay
The sitter was the wife of the artist's brother and the subject of McEvoy's celebrated portrait, 'Silver and Grey', painted in 1915.
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Mrs. Charles McEvoy
Details
Ambrose McEvoy, A.R.A. (1878-1927)
Mrs. Charles McEvoy
stamped with signature (lower right)
pencil
9½ x 7½ in. (24.2 x 19.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1912
Mrs. Charles McEvoy
stamped with signature (lower right)
pencil
9½ x 7½ in. (24.2 x 19.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1912
Provenance
Beaux Arts, London, 1946, where purchased by Mrs. Thomas Lowinsky.
Wolseley Fine Art, London.
Wolseley Fine Art, London.
Exhibited
London, Arts Council, Arts Council Gallery, Three Centuries of British Watercolours and Drawings, September-October 1951, no.113.