The missing belt

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Mary L. Gow (1851-1929)
The missing belt
signed with initials and dated 'M.L.G./1875' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with white, unframed
17¼ x 227/8in. (43.8 x 58.1cm.)

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Lot Essay

Her father, James Gow was a genre painter and her brother Andrew Carrick Gow, R.A. (1848-1920) painted portraits, historical, military and genre subjects. She studied at the Queens's Square School of Art and Heatherley's. Elected to the New Society of Painters in Water-Colour in 1875 she resigned in 1903. She married the artist Sydney Prior Hall (1842-1922), who was the son of Harry Hall the sporting artist.

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