341 - Henry Harris Brown, RP,

Henry Harris Brown, RP, British 1864-1948- Portrait of William Alan Fuller-Maitland, Esq (1882-1914), at age 21, in Coldstream Guards uniform; oil on canvas, bears inscription 'W.A.FULLER-MAITLAND. ESQ / COLDSTREAM GUARDS. AET:XXI / HHarrisBrown pinxit 1903' (verso), signed and dated 'HHarrisBrown 1903' (lower left), 127 x 84 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: William Alan Fuller-Maitland was the son of William Fuller-Maitland (1844-1932), an English collector, cricketer, and Liberal politician who served as an MP from 1875 to 1895. His son, here portrayed, was educated at Harrow and became a Captain of the Coldstream Guards, the oldest continuously serving regiment in the British Army, whose uniform he wears in the present painting. He fought in France during the First World War, where he was killed in action in 1914 at the age of 32. Henry Harris Brown was a popular society portrait painter who studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he was taught by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905). He exhibited at the Paris Salon and at the Royal Academy. A similarly striking military portrait by Harris Brown, depicting a 'Young Piper', sold at Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh on 16 August 2023, lot 372 (£8,820). Harris Brown's works are held at the National Gallery of Ireland, at the Musée d'Orsay and at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris, in various Oxford and Cambridge colleges, at the Museo Horne in Florence, and in several National Trust properties.