Lot 130
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 ANNABEL MANN
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 17.75cm (19.25in x 7in)
Provenance
Provenance: Christie’s, London, 19th and 20th Century Paintings and Drawings, 30 October 1964, lot 192 (as 'Miss Anabel Mann')
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
One of the three daughters of the Scots portrait-painter, Harrington Mann, and his wife, Florence Sabine-Pasley, the interior designer, known as ‘Dolly Mann’. Annabel as a baby was painted by her father c.1910 (City Art Centre, Edinburgh), while Annabel and her Toys (Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth), shows her as an infant in 1912. Other portraits followed, and by the late 1920s Annabel Mann was being photographed in the press as an attendee at fancy dress balls, along with other ‘bright young things’.
We are grateful to Professor Kenneth McConkey for the cataloguing of these artworks.