£3,500 - £4,500
TITLE:
Pair of Portraits of the Hargreaves’s
(LEWIS CAROLL, ALICE IN WONDERLAND)
SIZE:
77x63cm Canvas size each
MEDIA:
Oils On Canvas
DATE:
Inscribed and dated 1850.
FRAMES:
Exceptional quality original ornate gilt frames.
ARTIST:
Sir Francis Grant PRA President of the Royal Academy. (18 January 1803 – 5 October 1878):
Sir Francis Grant PRA Was a Scottish Portrait painter who painted Queen Victoria and many distinguished British aristocratic and political figures.
PROVENANCE:
The pair of Portraits are wedding portraits of Jonathan Hargreaves (c1813-1863) married to Anna Maria Hargreaves.
Johnathan & His Wife Anna lived in Oak Hill Park House seen in the paintings in which they originally hanged.
BACKGROUND HISTORY:
The son of Jonathan Hargreaves and Anna Maria Hargreaves depicted in these two portraits was Reginald Gervis Hargreaves and he married Alice Liddell (of Alice in Wonderland).
Alice Pleasance Hargreaves Liddell (1852 – 1934), was, in her childhood, an acquaintance and photography subject of Lewis Carroll. Ref.photos.
One of the stories he told her during a boating trip became the children's classic 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The rest is history.
Reginald Gervis Hargreaves married Alice Liddell in 1880 at Westminster Abbey.
To conclude the relative of Anna Maria Hargreaves recently visited us at the Lenkiewicz Auctions to view the portraits.
The girl in the photo is also called Alice after her relative Alice Liddell and the similarities are striking.
Excellent
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