Lady Elizabeth Hester Mary Paget, later Lady von Hofmannsthal (1916 - 1980) (A Girl in a Yellow Dress on a Sofa with a Dog)
Rex Whistler (Eltham 1905 - Normandy 1944)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1937 (unfinished) - 1940
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
760 x 1015 mm
Place of origin
Plas Newydd
Order this imageCollection
Plas Newydd, Anglesey
NT 1176297
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Elizabeth Hester Mary Paget, later Lady von Hofmannsthal (1916 - 1980) (A Girl in a Yellow Dress on a Sofa) by Rex (Reginald John) Whistler (Eltham 1905 - Normandy 1944), circa 1937. A portrait of a girl lying on a sofa wearing a yellow dress, with a dog on the floor below. She is hoding a book in her left hand (possibly a Bible).
Makers and roles
Rex Whistler (Eltham 1905 - Normandy 1944) , artist
References
Cecil & Cecil 2012: Hugh Cecil and Mirabel Cecil, In Search of Rex Whistler: His Life & Work, London, 2012, p. 131