Archibald James Stuart Wortley (1849-1905)

Portrait of a girl in a yellow dress with a red sash, holding an arum lily

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Archibald James Stuart Wortley (1849-1905)
Portrait of a girl in a yellow dress with a red sash, holding an arum lily
signed with monogram and dated '1885' (upper right)
oil on canvas
36 x 28¼ in. (91.4 x 71.8 cm.)
Exhibited
possibly London, Royal Academy, 1886, no. 962, as 'Marion, daughter of Henry Ford Barclay, Esq.'

Lot Essay

Wortley was a pupil of Millais, and it was probably he who introduced Millais's daughter Carrie to her future husband, his brother, Charles Beilby, later Lord Stuart of Wortley. J.G. Millais recorded that Wortley's interests 'seemed to be centred in guns and sketchbooks', and in his enthusiasm for the field he would have endeared himself to his tutor. His principal subjects were sporting pictures and portraits, his most celebrated work being a likeness of W.G. Grace, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1890, no. 1003, and presented to the Marylebone Cricket Club by its members.

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