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‡AMY KATHERINE BROWNING (1881-1978) PORTRAIT OF RHODA, LADY BIRLEY AT HER DESK Signed, oil on canvas 100.5 x 75cm. * The setting is the Birleys' drawing room at 62 Wellington Road, St. John's Wood, London. Sir Oswald's self portrait (1920) hangs above the fireplace. Lady Birley (1900-1981), born Rhoda Vava Mary Lecky Pike, was the founder of the Charleston Manor Festival and the picture has passed by descent in her family Exhibited: London, The Mall Galleries, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, 1976 (label verso)