Portrait of Molly, daughter of the late Sir Arthur Pease, Bt., in a riding habit, holding a riding crop

细节

Mary Lemon Waller, née Fowler (fl. 1871-1929)
Portrait of Molly, daughter of the late Sir Arthur Pease, Bt., in a riding habit, holding a riding crop
signed and dated 'M.L.Waller 1902' (lower right), and further signed and inscribed 'Mrs S.E. Walker 30 Grove End Road NW8 "Molly" daughter of the late Sir Arthur Pease Bart. 1.' (on an exhibition label on the reverse)
oil on canvas
47½ x 34 in. (120.7 x 86.4 cm.)

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London, Royal Society of Portrait Painters.

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拍品专文

The felicitiously named Mary Lemon Fowler married the genre painter Samuel Edmund Waller, and exhibited her society portraits at both the Royal Academy and Grosvenor Gallery. 'Molly' was born Mary Ethelwyn on 18 February 1892, the eldest daughter of Sir Arthur Francis Pease, 1^st Bt., and his wife Laura Matilda. Sir Arthur died in 1927 and was succeeded by his only son and first-born Sir Richard Arthur Pease, 2^nd Bt.