LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON, VICEROY OF INDIA, AND HIS WIFE

PROBABLY DELHI, NORTH INDIA, 1899-1904

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LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON, VICEROY OF INDIA, AND HIS WIFE
PROBABLY DELHI, NORTH INDIA, 1899-1904
Medallion portraits, possibly on ivory, Lord Curzon wearing the robes of Viceroy of India, his wife, formerly Mary Victoria Leiter (D.1906), seated and wearing a pale blue dress, in single carved ebony frame, with silver mounts
Each portrait 4 1/8in. (10.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

An old auction catalogue label on the reverse of the frame mentions a possible attribution to the artist Ulfat Hussain Khan (1863-1961).

This portrait of Lord Curzon is copied from a photographic portrait, an example of which is now in the George Grantham Bain Collection in the Library of Congress, Washington (https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ggbain.16113/)

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