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Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys, British 1829-1904- Portrait of Olive MacLehose, bust-length, looking over her left shoulder, wearing a light yellow cape and white neckerchief, surrounded by teasels; pencil and coloured chalks on paper, signed, inscribed, and dated 'Olive MacLehose. Aged 35 1895. / F Sandys' (upper right), 68 x 50.4 cm. Provenance: By family descent from the sitter to Jeremy MacLehose (before 2001). Published: B. Elzea, Frederick Sandys, 1829-1904: a Catalogue Raisonné, Antique Collectors' Club, 2001, p. 281, no. 5.17. Note: Sandys is associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and his artistic style was heavily influenced by that of his close friend, and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882). Alongside his more dramatic historical and mythological scenes, such as his famous depictions of Morgan le Fay and Medea, Sandys also produced a number of somewhat more restrained and contemplative pastel portraits, like his portrait of 'A young woman, possibly Lady Florence Emily Hesketh' which is now held in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London [E.1391-1924]. Olive MacLehose (1859-1926), née MacMillan, was the daughter of Alexander MacMillan (1818-1896), co-founder of the Macmillan publishing house with his brother Daniel (1813-1857), who would become the grandfather of the future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (1894-1986). Olive married Norman MacLehose, also from a publishing family, in 1886, just under 10 years before this portrait was completed. Olive's older sister, Margaret Helen MacMillan, was also portrayed by Sandys, in 1884 (Elzea, Sandys, cat. no. 4.42).
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Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys, British 1829-1904- Portrait of Olive MacLehose, bust-length, looking over her left shoulder, wearing a light yellow cape and white neckerchief, surrounded by teasels; pencil and coloured chalks on paper, signed, inscribed, and dated 'Olive MacLehose. Aged 35 1895. / F Sandys' (upper right), 68 x 50.4 cm. Provenance: By family descent from the sitter to Jeremy MacLehose (before 2001). Published: B. Elzea, Frederick Sandys, 1829-1904: a Catalogue Raisonné, Antique Collectors' Club, 2001, p. 281, no. 5.17. Note: Sandys is associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and his artistic style was heavily influenced by that of his close friend, and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882). Alongside his more dramatic historical and mythological scenes, such as his famous depictions of Morgan le Fay and Medea, Sandys also produced a number of somewhat more restrained and contemplative pastel portraits, like his portrait of 'A young woman, possibly Lady Florence Emily Hesketh' which is now held in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London [E.1391-1924]. Olive MacLehose (1859-1926), née MacMillan, was the daughter of Alexander MacMillan (1818-1896), co-founder of the Macmillan publishing house with his brother Daniel (1813-1857), who would become the grandfather of the future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (1894-1986). Olive married Norman MacLehose, also from a publishing family, in 1886, just under 10 years before this portrait was completed. Olive's older sister, Margaret Helen MacMillan, was also portrayed by Sandys, in 1884 (Elzea, Sandys, cat. no. 4.42).
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