£140
ATTRIBUTED TO ELLEN ELIZA WHITE (b.1832). Portrait of Robert Meadows White, D.D. (1798-1865), seated in his study, watercolour, unframed, 12 x 15in. The reverse bears a twentieth century inscription attributing the watercolour to Ellen White, the sitter's niece.
Provenance: believed to have once belonged to Robert Holmes White Esq.
Robert Meadows White (1798-1865) , was a cleric and academic, holding the office of Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University from 1834. Ten years earlier in 1824 he had been elected a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, retaining his Fellowship until 1847.
In 1839 he was presented to the Vicarage of Woolley, West Yorkshire; and later moved to Great Glenham in Suffolk, and afterwards to Slimbridge , Glos. He died at Cheltenham in 1865
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