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Lot 45AR

Sir Gerald Festus Kelly, RA
(British, 1879-1972)
The Well Beloved

3 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £6,875 inc. premium

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Sir Gerald Festus Kelly, RA (British, 1879-1972)

The Well Beloved
signed, inscribed with title and numbered 'b.f.59' on reverse and on canvas overlap
oil on canvas laid down on board
60.5 x 46cm (23 13/16 x 18 1/8in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Major Sir Owen Morshead GCVO KCB DSO MC (1893-1977)
Thence by descent

Sir Owen Morshead was Royal Librarian at Windsor from 1926 to 1958. He would have got to know Kelly when the latter resided at Windsor while painting the State Portraits of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.

Exhibited
Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 1938, no.49
London, Art Exhibitions Bureau, Theatre and Circus, Albemarle Street, 1955

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