Portrait of Hamish St. Clair Erskine

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English School, 20TH CENTURY
Portrait of Hamish St. Clair Erskine
signed indistinctly (lower right)
oil on canvas
12¼ x 10.1.4 in. (31.1 x 26 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The present work depicts the Scottish aristocrat Hamish St. Clair Erskine. Nancy Mitford (1904-1973), the novelist, biographer and editor of Noblesse Oblige embarked on a love affair with Erskine during their time at Oxford. In 1933, after a fruitless romance with Erskine, she married Peter Rodd, the youngest son of Sir Rennell Rodd.

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