A Rose and her Three Daughters, by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, ROI, RWS 1872-1945 (original) (raw)

A Rose and her Three Daughters

Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, ROI, RWS 1872-1945

Exhibited 1832

Watercolour

36.5 x 26 cm.; 14¼ x 10¼ in.

Signed with a monogram

Ex-Sotheby's

Provenance: Lady Rose Constance Leveson-Gower neé Bowes-Lyon, Countess Granville and elder sister to the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. See below for commentary.

Exhibited London, Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours

Sotheby's note: Lady Rose was sometimes known as the Rose of Glamis

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• Pencil Study of a Rose Bush in Flower and Lady Gay Rose (discussion of earlier depictions of roses)

Image and caption material added by Jacqueline Banerjee, with thanks to Sotheby's, except for the date when it was exhibited, kindly supplied by Pamela Gerrish Nunn. See commentary below.