SIR JOHN LAVERY R.A., R.S.A., R.H.A., P.R.P., H.R.O.I., L.L.B. (IRISH 1856-1941)
MISS ALICE TRUDEAU
£2,142
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 14.75cm (19.25in x 5.75in)
Provenance
Provenance: Christie’s, London, 19th and 20th Century Paintings and Drawings, 30 October 1964, lot 194 (as 'Miss Alice Tindeau')
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
Alice Trudeau (1904-1991) was the daughter of Edward Livingston Trudeau and Hazel Martyn. Her father died before her birth and when her mother married Lavery in July 1909, she became his stepdaughter. Thereafter she featured prominently in Lavery’s paintings as a keen golfer, tennis player and horsewoman. She married John A McEnery (Jack), of Kilkenny, an Irish farmer and horse breeder, in March 1930 in Cannes, against her mother’s wishes. Witnesses to the marriage were Lord and Lady Derby, Sir Stuart and Lady Coats and Sir Alan and Lady Johnstone. Lavery died at her home, Rossenarra House, in January 1941. She remarried in 1963 to Denis Rolleston Gwynn, (1893-1971), the journalist and historian and her later years were spent at Beauparc in Co Meath.
We are grateful to Professor Kenneth McConkey for the cataloguing of these artworks.