66 - Gerald Leslie Brockhurst

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (British, 1890-1978) Ferris St. George, Esq., c. 1936 oil on canvas laid to panel signed faintly BROCKHURST (lower right) 40 x 32 in. (101.6 x 81.3 cm) Property from the Collection of Ben Duke This lot is located in Chicago. Framed: 48 1/2 x 40 1/2 in. Exhibited: London, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, May 4 - August 6, 1936, p. 27, no. 289. Lot Note: The present portrait depicts Frederick Ferris Bligh St. George(1908-1970), fourth son of the second Baronet St. George and grandson ofthe financier and philanthropist George Fisher Baker (1840-1931), known as the "Dean of American Banking." He served in the British Life Guards as a colonel, and in 1959 held the position of High Sheriff of Gloucestershire. St. George was brother to George Baker Bligh St. George (1892-1957), also featured in this auction. Ferris was the subject of well-known childhood portraits by the artist Sir William Orpen, whose portrait of Francis Henry Edward Livesay is likewise included in this sale.