Wigs on the Green has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
She lost her older brother when she was just three and then her mother when she was 14. At the age of 19, Emma married Ellis Gosling, the son of a wealthy banker, and moved to live at Busbridge Hall in Surrey. But bereavement was to strike again with the premature death of Ellis in 1861 leaving Emma pregnant with their second child. Two years later she married John Charles Ramsden, an old friend and neighbour from Yorkshire. Ramsden, a Captain in the Royal Artillery, moved into Busbridge Hall. The couple had four sons and a daughter and ran a large household with numerous indoor and outdoor staff.
The portrait is signed on the obverse ‘C.J. Turrell 1884’ and is set in a gold-plated hinged frame, the reverse extensively engraved inside with the sitter’s details.
Charles James Turrell (1845-1932) was a prominent London society artist who included royalty amongst his clientele. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1873 and actually exhibited ‘Mrs Ramsden’ there in 1885. Turrell also worked in the USA and indeed died whilst staying in New York.
Framed Size: 98 x 79mm
Exhibited: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 1885
APHA Registration: 29XESUL9
Wigs on the Green has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
Small portraiture of character & historical interest
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Charles J. Turrell, Portrait of Emma Ramsden, Signed
