WITHDRAWN Charles Martin Hardie RSA (Scottish 1858-1916) Portrait of Captain George Amelius...

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Charles Martin Hardie RSA (Scottish 1858-1916) Portrait of Captain George Amelius Crawshay Sandeman (1882-1915) Full length, playing cricket aged 13 Signed with initials and dated 95, also signed on the frame verso Oil on canvas 117 x 89cm; 46 x 35in Provenance: By family descent George Sandeman was the only son of Lt. Col. George Glas Sandeman and his wife Amy of Fonab, Pitlochry, Perthshire. His mother died days after his birth. After his father died in 1905 he inherited the Fonab Estate at Moulin, Perthshire and became a partner in the wine merchants and shippers David Sandeman and Sons of Pall Mall. The 1911 Census lists him as living in the family home at 34 Grosvenor Gardens, London with five servants and at the time he was a student at the Bar. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1913. He played first-class cricket for Hampshire, appearing three times in 1913. In 1914 he played for the MCC against Oxford University and for the Free Foresters against both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. He was a slow left-arm orthodox bowler and left handed batsman. He joined the 3rd Battallion of the Hampshire Regiment as a Captain at the outbreak of war and went to France on the 27th August 1914. He was missing in action on the 26th April 1915 during the 2nd Battle of Ypres near Zonnebeke and is commemorated on the Menin Gate, Panel 35. There are also memorials to him in Holy Trinity Epicsopal Church, Pitlochry and on the War Memorial at the Temple Church in London