Details
Barbara Sotheby 19th Century
Portrait of Meriel Cowell Lady Howard Stepney, bust length
in Green Dress
oil on canvas
26 x 21½in. (66 x 54.6cm)
Portrait of Meriel Cowell Lady Howard Stepney, bust length
in Green Dress
oil on canvas
26 x 21½in. (66 x 54.6cm)
Further details
Catherine Meriel Cowell-Stepney as the only daughter and heiress of Sir Arthur Cowell-Stepney, 2nd Baronet (1834-1909). She married as his second wife Sir Edward Stafford Howard K.C.B. (1851-1916), a kinsman of the Dukes of Norfolk, in 1911. On 9th March, 1922, she assumed by Royal Licence the additional name and arms of Stepney. Lady Howard Stepney died in 1952. She was the maternal grandmother of the present owner.