William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
Title: "Portrait of Mary Watson (nee Bowness) of Thorngate House". (Died 1891).
Wife of William Watson of Thorngate House (nephew of William Watson of Spring Lodge).
Signed with monogram and dated 1882.
See SA911284 and SA911281 for it's companions.
Provenance: From the family of the sitter.
Oil on board. Oval.
Size: 8 1/4"x 6 1/4". Framed size: 14 3/4"x 12 3/4".
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Absolutely superb quality portrait by one of the best 19th century women portrait painters.
Now painting and frame cleaned.
In very good ready to hang condition. Free UK delivery.
In it's original good gilt gold leaf frame.
Mary Lemon Waller.
Mary Lemon was born to Rev. Hugh Fowler of Burnwood, Gloucestershire.
Waller began exhibiting paintings as early as age 20, and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1877–1904. She married genre painter Samuel Edmund Waller in 1874; the couple lived in London and had one son. Waller exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois In 1925, Waller became a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
Waller's works can be seen at several venues in the United Kingdom: Cragside, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and Somerville College, Oxford.
William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
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Mary Lemon Waller. "Mary Watson". Oil Portrait.
