Radnorshire Fine Arts Ltd

Description

British School (c.1870) Portrait of Mary Georgina Ormsby-Gore (1851-1937)
Pencil and watercolour displayed in a wash-line rectangular mount with oval aperture and a gilt-wood frame. Provenance: Lord Harlech of Glyn Cywarch.

Aperture: 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (25 x 20 cm.)
Frame: 16 5/8 x 14 1/8 in. (42.4 x 35.4 cm.)

Mary Georgina Ormsby-Gore was Lady-in-Waiting to HRH Duchess of Connaught and to HRH Princess Patricia of Connaught. She married in 1878 Colonel Sir Alfred Mordaunt Egerton, KCVO, CB (1843-1908). He was an English soldier and courtier (a descendant of the 2nd Earl of Bridgewater). Mary’s mother Lady Emily Charlotte Ormsby Gore was born Seymour, daughter of Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour. Mary’s father William Richard Ormsby-Gore was 2nd Baron Harlech, MP for County Leitrim.

They had four sons:

• Lieutenant Colonel Arthur George Edward Egerton (1879–1915), who was killed in action in the First World War
• Captain Louis Edwin William Egerton (1880–1917), an alumnus of Christ Church, Oxford, and an officer in the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars also killed in action during the First World War
• Major Josslyn Seymour Egerton (1883–1946), sometime Page of Honour to Queen Victoria, and an officer in the British Army
• Sir Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton (1886–1959), the chemist.

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CONDITION AND PRESENTATION
In our description, if a picture is shown to be framed then the frame will be included with the sale of the picture. Unless stated otherwise all unframed watercolours, drawings and prints have been mounted onto acid-free conservation board using either Japanese hinging paper or reversible wheat starch past. Unframed and mounted pictures are then wrapped in clear polyester film to protect both the picture and the mount. All conservation work has been carried out by accredited conservators.