Middletons Antiques

Description

A beautiful and delicately drawn 19th Century pastel and chalk portrait of Lady Isabella Grace Maude and her sister Lady Clementine Maude.
Signed by the Victorian Portrait Painter Eden Upton Eddis and dated 1851.

Inscribed on back as per photo:

The Lady Isabella Grace Maude
afterwards
The Lady Colchester
&
Lady Clementine Maude
daughters of Cornwallis 4th Viscount Hawarden
& 1st and only Earl of Montalt

On Paper mounted on Linen.
This Pastel has been professionally restored to remove stain marks

It has been re mounted, and finished with a simple cream washed frame, and has a perspex window cut into the back board to reveal the inscription.

Dimensions: 30 inches high, 26 inches wide

Background:

Ladies Isabella and Clementine Maude were the daughters of Clementina Viscountess Hawarden 1823 - 65) who was a noted pioneering photographer in the mid 19thC. A collection of her photographs of the girls taken when a little older between 1859 and 1864 is held by the V&A Museum London

Eden Upton Eddis (1812 - 1901) Portrait Painter.
Enrolled at the Royal Academy schools in 1828, and he won a silver medal in 1831. From the age of twenty-five until he was nearly seventy his work was regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy. Eddis specialised in portraiture and had an affinity for delicately detailed images of children. Among his eminent sitters were the historian Lord Macaulay, John Bird Sumner the Archbishop of Canterbury, the essayist and fashionable cleric Sydney Smith and thesaurus compiler Peter Roget

International Customers. This portrait painting can be packed and delivered very economically to most countries (door to door) within a week! Please email me your postcode for a quote.





PLEASE NOTE
I AM STARTING TO WIND DOWN MY ANTIQUES BUSINESS NOW AND WILL CONSIDER ANY SENSIBLE OFFER ON ANY ITEM OF STOCK WE HAVE FOR SALE

Free delivery to all mainland UK addresses

We do not sell reproductions or copies.

We are based in Cornwall and have over 40 years experience of dealing in antiques of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
Most of our sales are via websites like Loveantiques, and we are always happy to discuss and answer questions about our stock by telephone or email. Please do get in touch.
Viewings can be arranged by appointment here in Cornwall.

Delivery throughout mainland UK is free of charge.
We have regular collections by reliable carriers who we know and trust for their care and conscientious service.
Smaller items will be carefully packed and couriered World wide, delivery usually within 10 days.

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Please do get in touch if you have any questions.
Kind Regards, Mark and Carole Middleton



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