Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857–1947)

Elizabeth Adela Forbes (1859–1912)

1901 or before

Oil on panel

13 7/8 in. x 10 1/4 in. (354 mm x 260 mm)

@ National Portrait Gallery, London

no. 6587

In an extended catalogue entry, Jan Marsh comments, "This small work, at first sight hardly more than an oil sketch, vividly captures the sitter’s relaxed, unselfconscious aspect, absorbed in reading an astonishingly thick volume, held in sinewy artist’s hands. A dusty pink flower in his buttonhole relieves the sober grey-brown hues elsewhere."

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