SIR JOHN LAVERY R.A., R.S.A., R.H.A., P.R.P., H.R.O.I., L.L.B. (IRISH 1856-1941)
LADY PONSONBY
£2,772
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture
Auction: Evening Sale: 08 December 2022 | From 18:00
Description
Signed and stamped, inscribed and dated 1931 verso, oil on canvas board
Dimensions
49cm x 29.5cm (19.25in x 11.5in)
Provenance
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
Footnote
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.