*AUGUSTUS JOHN (1878-1961) 'Woman wearing a smock' a full-le...

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£2,000

*AUGUSTUS JOHN (1878-1961) 'Woman wearing a smock' a full-length portrait of Mrs Chadbourne, signed lower right, pencil on paper, 52cm x 34cm

Provenance: With Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., Bruton Street, Mayfair, London W1.

Emily Rockwell Crane Chadbourne (1871–1964) was the daughter of Richard Teller Crane and Mary Prentice Crane. Emily, well-known for art collection and philanthropy, sat on the board of governors for the Art Institute of Chicago, was a fellow in perpetuity of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and former president of the Senate House Museum in Kingston, NY. She also had a house in London’s Mayfair and was a major lender to Roger Fry’s exhibition Manet and the Post-Impressionists at the Grafton Galleries in 1910–11.