Lot Essay
The sitter, who was a close friend of the artist, became Mrs Charles Cardale Luck, and attended the Forbes Art School in Newlyn, together with Sir Alfred Munnings and Dame Laura Knight.
Portrait of Cicely Tennyson-Jesse
Details
Elizabeth Adela Stanhope Forbes (1859-1912)
Portrait of Cicely Tennyson-Jesse
signed 'E.A.Forbes' (upper left)
pencil and watercolour
13½ x 8½in. (34.2 x 21.6cm.)
Executed circa 1909-10
Portrait of Cicely Tennyson-Jesse
signed 'E.A.Forbes' (upper left)
pencil and watercolour
13½ x 8½in. (34.2 x 21.6cm.)
Executed circa 1909-10
Provenance
A gift from the artist to the sitter and thence by family descent to the previous owner