Lot 2210
SIR FRANK BERNARD DICKSEE, PRA (1853-1928)
PORTRAIT OF VIOLET MARY FRANCES STUART, LADY PAGE WOOD
Signed and dated 1916, oil on canvas
100 x 84cm.
* The sitter, born Violet Stuart Johnson (1875-1956), was the daughter of a prison governor, Henry Stuart Johnson. Violet married Sir John Page Wood, 5th Baronet, in 1906 but was widowed in 1912. Toll suggests that it is likely that the commission for this regal portrait arose through Margaret, Lady Brooke, The Ranee of Sarawak, who was Violet's aunt by marriage.
Exhibited: London, The Royal Academy, 1916, no.428 (as `Lady Wood`)
Literature: Simon Toll, Frank Dicksee 1853-1928: His Art and Life (Woodbridge, 2017)
Provenance: By descent in the family to Sir Anthony Page Wood, Bt.; Private Collection
