Frances (Fanny) Herbert Neale née Nisbet An album of watercolour and prints with watercolours of...

Frances (Fanny) Herbert Neale née Nisbet

An album of watercolour and prints with watercolours of flowers and insects by Fanny (c.33) most signed Frances Herbert Nisbet. Also including works signed E. O'N. N. (Evangeline O'Neale Neale) some dated (c.9), Anna Maria Lucas (c.4) and W. Jacobson (c.4) with c.27 small prints.

All watercolour or gouache

36 x 26cm; 14 x 10¼in (album size)

Together with the book Nelson's First Love, Fanny's Story by Patrick Delaforce (2)

Provenance:

Fanny Herbert Neale, 1864, Cheltenham

Frances Neale was Lady Nelson's grand-daughter, being the eldest daughter of Lady Nelson's son Josiah Nisbet, from her first marriage to Josiah Nisbet, a doctor on the Island of Nevis in the Caribbean, where she grew up.