Lot 594
FRANK MARKHAM SKIPWORTH (1854-1929)
PORTRAIT OF MISS MABEL MILLETT (1867-1951)
Bust length, wearing a dark dress and fur stole, signed with initials and dated 85, oil on canvas
39.5 x 29.5cm.
* Mabel Elizabeth Vincent Millett was born in May 1867. She married the ship owner Joseph Temperley in 1887 and bore him three children. She later became Lady Strakosch upon her marriage to the banker and financier Sir Heinrich `Henry` Strakosch in 1941.
Provenance: By descent in the family of the sitter