£2,772
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture | 719
Auction: Evening Sale
Signed and stamped, inscribed and dated 1931 verso, oil on canvas board
Provenance: Christie’s, London, 19th and 20th Century Paintings and Drawings, 30 October 1964, lot 195
Exhibited: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, Their Majesties’ Court, Buckingham Palace, 1931, Portrait Studies and Other Sketches by Sir John Lavery RA, November 1932
Lady Ponsonby (née Dorothea Parry, 1876-1963) married Arthur Ponsonby, Queen Victoria’s secretary, in 1898. Objectors to Britain’s involvement in the Great War, Dorothy Ponsonby and her husband were active in the Union of Democratic Control. During the 1920s their daughter, Elizabeth, was prominent among the ‘Bright Young Things’. After a successful diplomatic career under the Labour Government of Ramsay MacDonald, Ponsonby was raised to the peerage in 1930, hence his wife and daughter’s presence in Their Majesties’ Court.
We are grateful to Professor Kenneth McConkey for the cataloguing of these artworks.