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Mary Frances Dundas McEwen
Philip
Alexius de Laszlo
-- British painter (1869-1937)
1913 / 1914
Oil on Canvas
69 x 43 in. (175.3 x 109.2 cm.)
Signed and dated l.r. de
László / 1914.III
Sitters Book Vol. I p. 92 Mary Frances McEwen / March 15 1913
Jpg: Christies
From Christies
Mary Frances Dundas
(1864-1944) was the daughter of Henry Robert Duncan Dundas and
Catherine Anne Carrington Napier. In 1893 she married Robert Finnie
McEwen (1861-1926) of Marchmont and Bardrochat. They had four children.
Mrs. McEwen had already been painted with one of her daughters by Sir
John Lavery.
Sir
John Lavery
Mrs. Robert
Finnie McEwen of Marchmont and Bardrochat, with her Daughters,
Katharine and Elizabeth
1907
The McEwen family was
to
offer de László several commissions over the years, in
addition to this
portrait. Robert Finnie McEwen also offered to have de
László paint the
composer Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) in 1913, but Stanford
politely declined, asking McEwen instead to offer financial aid to his
fellow composers. Two years later, the artist painted the
McEwens' two
sons, John Helias Finnie McEwen (1894-1962) and James Robert Dundas
McEwen (1896-1916), in 1915. [The latter picture can already be viewed
in the de László section of the JSS Gallery.] Mary’s
husband signed the
artist’s Sitters’ Book on March 27, 1925; their daughter-in-law,
Bridget (who had married John Helias Finnie McEwen) followed suit on
Nov. 14, 1930.
(Christies)
Notes
Special
thanks
to Matt Davies, from Kansas City, a friend
of the JSS Gallery, for the link to this painting.
Provenance:
Offered for sale by Sotheby’s, London, Modern British and Irish
Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, Oct. 12, 1988, lot. 25 (‘Mary
Frances Dundas’);
Sold by Christie’s, South Kensington, Twentieth Century
British Art, May 11, 2005, Sale No. 5611, lot 46 (‘Mary Frances
Dundas’); £6,600 UK (was estimated of
£6,000-10,000)
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James
Robert Dundas McEwen
1915
(Son to Mary Frances Dundas McEwen)
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