Maud Frances Sambourne, Mrs Leonard Charles Rudolph Messel (1875-1960)
Oliver Messel (London 1904 - St James, Barbados 1978)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1924 - 1978
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
645 x 540 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Nymans Estate, West Sussex
NT 1206492
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Maud Frances Sambourne, Mrs Leonard Charles Rudolph Messel (1875-1960) by Oliver Messel (London 1904 - St James, Barbados 1978). A head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman, the artist's mother, turned, looking and gazing to the right, short light brown hair with a frings, and wearing a large white bow at her neck. It has possibly been taken from a photograph.
Provenance
Purchased at Old House sale, Sotheby's, London, September 2002
Makers and roles
Oliver Messel (London 1904 - St James, Barbados 1978), artist