Lot 2176
ENGLISH SCHOOL, 1871
PORTRAIT OF JOHN COLVILLE HYDE (1852-1912)
Seated half length by a tree, wearing sporting coat and breeches, holding a shotgun on his lap, signed with a monogram (EW or WE) and dated 1871, oil on canvas
90 x 69.5cm.
* Possibly by William Maw Egley (1826-1916)
Provenance: By descent in the family of the sitter. The sitter's father, Sir John Hyde, was a High Sheriff of Kent and lived at Sindalls near Faversham.
