ANTHONY FREDERICK AUGUSTUS SANDYS | PORTRAIT OF MAY GILLILAN
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December 10, 03:19 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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ANTHONY FREDERICK AUGUSTUS SANDYS
1832-1904
PORTRAIT OF MAY GILLILAN
signed on a fragment of the old mount attached to the reverse; F Sandys
pencil with coloured chalks heightened with bodycolour on pale green ti🌊nted pape🦂r
37 by 28cm., 14½ by 11in.
Com✱missioned by the sitter's father William Gillilan of 6 Palace Gate, Kensington༺;
Wooley & Walli🗹s, Salisbury, 15 April 1996, lot 85;
Bonham's, London, 19 March 1997, lot 106;
Maas Gallery, 2012;
Private collection
Betty Elzea, Frederick Sandys, A Complete Catalogue Raisonne, 1999, p.268 cat.4.27
London, Maas Gallery, British Pictures (1840-1940, 1998, no.39
This drawing originally incorporated a portrait of the sitter's sister Winnie but was subsequently reduced to a single portrait. May was the eldest daughter of William and Mary Gillilan who commissioned Sandys to portray them both and their three daughters Winnie, May and C෴hristabel.