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Joseph Poole Addey (1852-1922)
PORTRAIT OF ELIZABETH ROSE AND HER DAUGHTER MURIEL LISA BROWN OF
DUBLIN, 1899
watercolour with gouache
signed and dated lower left; with ornate label of J.D. Spence [Print Seller & Fine Art
Dealer, 38 Westmoreland Street, Dublin] on reverse
29.25 by 21.25in. (74.30 by 53.98cm)
Provenance:
Family of the sitters;
Thence by descent
Exhibited:
RHA, Dublin, catalogue no. 195 [NFS] as
Mrs. H. Brown and her daughter Muriel
The present work was one of four shown by the artist in the RHA in 1900.The
Index of
Exhibitors
records Poole Addey’s address at this juncture as 10 Dunville Avenue, Rathmines,
Dublin.The sitters are Muriel Lisa Sandes Brown aged 5 years and Elizabeth Rose Brown aged
35, married to William Herbert (barrister), of Burlington Road (Pembroke West, Dublin).
€
2,000-
€
3,000 (£1,700-£2,600 approx.)