C1910 PORTRAIT MINIATURE LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
Artist - Daisy Blades 1858 - 1936
Title - Lady Randoph Churchill (mother of Winston Churchill)
Medium - Watercolour on Ivory (Ivory declaration number 9TQHDHHE)
Size - 15x 11cm
Very rare contemporay image of Lady Randolph Churchill 1854 - 1921 by the very talented but seldom seen society miniature artist Daisy Blades
Jennie Spencer-Churchill CI RRC DStJ (née Jerome; 9 January 1854 – 29 June 1921), known as Lady Randolph Spencer-Churchill was an American-born British socialite, the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill, and the mother of British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill.
Daisy Blades was miniature painter to HRH Princess Victoria.
Blades she was born in Guernsey, Channel Islands, in 1858, the daughter of Colonel Joel Blades of the Royal Artillery, who was the last commanding officer in charge of the The Battery on the Bayle at Folkstone.
Guernsey was where Daisy studied first and then under M Bother in P
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She painted a portrait of Queen Victoria which was exhibited in 1887 and also portraits of various other distinguished people.
The secret referred to was apparently a method of using black and white brushwork.
She exhibited at the Royal Academy and the New Gallery.
Her married name was Mrs Mary Jane Myers, so it appears that Daisy Blades was her nickname. She died in 1936, at Folkstone, Kent, England.
Joel Blades produced quite an interesting family. The sons generally went into the army. One was awarded the D.S.O. in WW1- for leadership-not heroism. Three of the daughters became well known for various reasons. Daisy was an artist. Minnie was an actress and then there is the one that interests me. Thanks to an NZ authoress I am able to pinpoint Maud''s whereabouts in 1899. She was at the Ladysmith Hospital during the Siege and as a result was awarded the Royal Red Cross. Her husband at that time had an uncle who went ''broke'' in Christchurch in the 1860''s. Her father-in law, brother to the fellow who went to Christchurch, lived until 1916, went to Port Phillip in the 1840s but decided to make a career in the Indian Army, so as you see the family spread out into most crannies of the Empire. Another uncle-to her husband at that time-disgraced himself -in the family''s eyes, by marrying a Maori. He died and was ''planted'' at Wanganui. Maud divorced her husband after producing a daughter. She then married Herbert Walton a Johannesberg barrister and had three more children.
Internal Reference: churchill
Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA994833
Dateline of this antique is 1910
Height is 15cm (5.9inches)Width is 11cm (4.3inches)Depth is 0cm (0.0inches)
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