Ernesta Clementina Sandryk of Florence, Mrs Edmund William Elton
Elma Marion Elton (Florence c.1856 - Eastbourne 1923)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1880 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
730 x 603 mm (28 3/4 x 23 /34 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Clevedon Court, North Somerset
NT 624164
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Ernesta Clementina Sandryk, Mrs Edmund William Elton by Elma Marion Elton (Florence c. 1856 - Eastbourne 1923), signed and dated 1880. A half-length portrait of Ernesta Elton by her daughter, turned to the right in profile, reading a book which she holds up in her hands. She has dark brown hair and drop-pearl earrings and is wearing a black dress and a white lace shawl over her shoulders, a necklace with a jewel or locket, white frill upright collar and white lace cap tied with a black bow at the left. She married Edmund William Elton (1822-1859) as his second wife. Edmund William was the son of Sir Charles Abraham Elton 6th Bt (1778-1853) and Sarah Smith (1782-1830).
Provenance
Purchased from Lady Margaret Ann Elton (1915 – 1995), 1981 with the help of grants from the V&A Purchase Fund and the NHMF
Makers and roles
Elma Marion Elton (Florence c.1856 - Eastbourne 1923), artist