Margaret 'Madge' Frary Miller (1879 - 1950)
Nathaniel Hughes John Baird (Scotland 1865 - Reading 1936)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1895 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
660 x 591 mm (26 x 23¼ in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Greenway, Devon
NT 120697
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Margaret 'Madge' Frary Miller (1879 - 1950) by Nathaniel Hughes John Baird (Scotland 1865 - Reading 1936), signed, top right, in red, with monogram and dated ‘95 [1895]. A portrait of Madge Miller, Agatha Christie's older sister, wearing a white frilly dress, holding a bunch of pink/purple flowers at her waist, with short reddish hair.
Provenance
Via sister from Ashfield House, Devon or Abney Hall, Cheshire; given by Mrs Rosalind Hicks, Anthony Hicks and Mathew Prichard, 2006
Credit line
Greenway, The Prichard/Hicks Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Signed top right, in red, with monogram and dated ‘95 Verso: in brown ink, on small round label: HAB / D28 /F.
Makers and roles
Nathaniel Hughes John Baird (Scotland 1865 - Reading 1936), artist