British School, mid-19th Century - Portrait of Maria Brown (...

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£300 - £500

British School, mid-19th Century - Portrait of Maria Brown (wife of William Brown), wearing a red dress with a white collar - Oil on canvas - 75 x 62cm - 97 x 85cm framed - William Brown was the great-great-grandfather of Aubrey Brown (d. 1935), who in 1919 opened his first silk tie store and in 1926 founded Holliday & Brown. The company recently joined the stable of Mantero alongside Prada and is now based at Lake Como - Provenance: By descent in the sitter's family