Still life of flowers
signed and dated 'V.F.G. 52.' (lower left)
watercolour, gouache and pastel
44 x 33cm
together with a watercolour of flowers by the same hane, signed and dated '52', 41.5 x 29cm;
Estimate: | £50 - £70 |
Hammer price: | £280 |
and a folio containing six photographic prints relating to the FitzGerald and Severne families, a print of Ford Abbey in Devon, a watercolour of The Lodge, a watercolour of a lady reading, with a lady carrying a basket on the reverse, and three certificates relating to music and one to art addressed to Rachel Giralda Fitzgerald as a child
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Veronica Fitzgerald (nee Villiers), was the daughter of Ernest Villiers and a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill. In 1929 she married Desmond Wyndham Otho FitzGerald, 28th Knight of Glin and went on to have three children. One of these children was Rachel Giralda FitzGerald who would go on to marry Michael Meysey Wigley Severne of Shakenhurst. Rachel was a model known as The Swan.
Provenance: Shakenhurst Hall, Cleobury Mortimer. For further information please refer to the Bellmans website article: https://www.bellmans.co.uk/story/bellmans-2