Old Masters, British & European Paintings - 8th March 2023

Lot 318

Herbert James Draper (1864-1920)

Estimate £5,000 - £7,000 | Hammer £4500

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Description

Herbert James Draper (1864-1920)
Portrait of Yvonne Draper, the artist's daughter, as a child, standing full-length in a landscape, wearing her christening gown
Signed Herbert Draper (lower right)
Oil on canvas, 1902
121.2 x 68cm; 47¾ x 26¾in

Provenance:
Property of the artist;
And by family descent

Literature:
Simon Toll, Herbert Draper 1863-1920: A Life Study (Antique Collector's Club, 2003), pp.107-108, 187, no.HJD107, plate 62

Exhibited:
Liverpool, Liverpool Autumn Exhibition, 1902, no.916

There is a contemporary photograph of Yvonne Draper wearing the same christening gown. In this period she was also the model for the infant in her father's painting The Capture, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1901 (see Toll, HJD108).