£150
Two portraits, depicting Robert Edwin Alford as a small child, and his mother, Maud Mary Louise Griffiths, comprising a portrait of a Maud with wavy dark hair, in chalk / pastel, unsigned, head and shoulders on paper, verso, 51 by 43cm, verso framing label for Ernest Alden, Chelsea, plus a portrait of Robert Edwin Alford KBE as a young child, pencil and watercolour, shown seated in dressing gown, label verso with initials R.E.A, signed indistinctly by the artist in pencil lower left and dated 1909 (Artist M. G??? Gray?), 45 by 57cm. (2)
Provenance: the estate of Ralph Robert Alford, son of Robert Edwin Alford, K.B.E, C.M.E, and Teresa, Lady Alford, nee Teresa Mary Margaret Knill, who was daughter of Mary Kathleen Knill, grand-daughter of Margaret Mary Knill (married to Henry Francis Purcell), and great-grand daughter of Jane Knill,(married name: Jane Welby Pugin (1827-19090) who was the third wife of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Teresa was niece of Margaret Eily Gladstone (third child of Margaret Mary Pugin).
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