Florence 'Elsa' Bell, Mrs Herbert William Richmond and Mary Katherine Bell, Lady Trevelyan (1881-1966)
Caroline Grosvenor (fl.1889 - d. 1940)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1902 (initialled and dated)
Materials
Watercolour on paper, canvas on wood frame covered by glass
Measurements
683 x 773 x 50 mm
Order this imageCollection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 584374
Summary
Watercolour on paper, Florence 'Elsa' Bell, Mrs Herbert William Richmond and Mary Katherine Bell, Lady Trevelyan (1881-1966) by Caroline Grosvenor (fl.1889 - d.1940), with initial & date, bottom right: 19G02. Half-length portraits of two women, turned to the left, both lenaing on a table with green cloth. The two daughters of Sir (Thomas) Hugh Bell, of Rounton Grange, nr. Northallerton, by his second marriage, to Florence Olliffe, the sociologist. Mary Katharine, known as 'Molly' (1881-1966) Bell married Sir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd Bt, in 1904. Her father was a Teesside ironmaster, but also a patron of Philip Webb. By his first marriage, to Maria Shield, he had a son and another daughter, Gertrude Bell, the traveller and archaeologist. (Florence) Elsa, the elder daughter, was married in 1907 to Captain Herbert William Richmond, RN, second son of the artist, Sir William Blake Richmond, RA. Molly Trevelyan was as active and public-spirited as her husband, to whom she bore six children. She was a leading light in the Women's Liberal Federation, an active member of the Rural Womens Organisation, and one of the founders of the Women's Institute. Nearer home, she formed a small choir and a company of Girl Guides on the estate. She was also a fine needlewoman, working the embroidery of The Legend of the First Trevelyan for one of the two main panels in the Saloon.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Marks and inscriptions
Back of frame top center : Written in pencil - Elsa and Mary daughter of Hugh Bell esquire painted by Caroline Grosvenor..Illegible writing underneath Back of frame bottom center: Small brown paper label - printed in black ink - 90 Front of watercolor bottom right: Signed bottom right on front of watercolor - 1900 G
Makers and roles
Caroline Grosvenor (fl.1889 - d. 1940), artist