Jacques Emile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)

Portrait of The Honourable Mrs Charles Russell, née Adah Williams (1868-1959), half-length, in a brown dress

Details

Jacques Emile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)
Portrait of The Honourable Mrs Charles Russell, née Adah Williams (1868-1959), half-length, in a brown dress
signed and indistinctly inscribed 'JE Blanche' (lower right)
oil on canvas
33 x 26½ in. (83.8 x 67.3 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 3 December 1985, lot 187.

Literature

Jane Roberts, Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942), Montreuil, 2012, no. 168.

Sale room notice

Please note that the sitter of this picture is The Honourable Mrs Charles Russell, née Adah Williams (1868-1959) circa 1900. She was the second wife of Charles Arthur Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Killowen (1832-1900) who was Lord Chief Justice and of Anglo-Irish descent. She was also painted by Sargent in 1900.
This painting was sold at Christie's London, 3 December 1985, lot 187. It is no. 168 in the catalogue raisonné.
We are grateful to Jane Roberts for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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Lot Essay

The second wife of Charles Arthur Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Killowen (1832-1900), Lord Chief Justice, Adah Russell was also painted by John Singer Sargent in 1900, and this portrait probably dates from the same period.

We are grateful to Jane Roberts for her assistance in cataloguing this picture.

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