Piers Frederick Legh (b.1830)
William Edwards Miller (fl.1873 – after 1929)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1917
Materials
Oil on canvas
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 500029
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Piers Frederick Legh (b.1830) by William Edwards Miller (fl.1873 – after 1929), W.E.M, monogrammed top left in gold. A half-length portrait of an elderly man with balding grey hair and a beard, facing, looking left; set in an interior with table to the left. He is wearing a brown suit with white shirt and blue tie. His ringed right hand rests on the table holding a pair of spectacles, his ringed left hand holds a book open on his knee.
Provenance
Original to the house.
Marks and inscriptions
W.E.M. / (red paint top left corner)
Makers and roles
William Edwards Miller (fl.1873 – after 1929), artist