Portrait of Miss Wyndham, aged sixteen

Portrait of Miss Wyndham, aged sixteen

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt ARA (1833-1898)

mid-1880s

Green chalk on cream paper

12 x 8 1/2 inches, 30.5 x 21.5 cm..

Provenance: Lady Burne-jones and her daughter, Margaret Mackail. Given to Mrs. Percy Wyndham, the sitter's mother, Christmas 1888. Bequeathed to the sitter then Mrs. Charles Adeane, 1920. Given to her son Robert Charles Wyndham Adeane on his marriage, 1929. Thence by descent to 1986. Private collection

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