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Description William Bruce Ellis Ranken
1881 - 1941
Portrait?study of Marjorie, Countess of Brecknock (1900-1989)
signed with monogram and?dated lower right: 1929
pencil and watercolour, heightened with white
19 x 17cm.
Condition Report The work is executed on thin card. The work appears to be in good overall condition. There is a small tear to the card lower left. A minor knick to the upper left hand edge. There is some light time staining to the work throughout. There is an area of staining to the upper right corner of the work. Some scatter foxing marks and specks of surface dirt. Framed under glass and held in a simple drawing frame. This work has been examined out of its frame.
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Notes The sitter was the cousin and life long friend of Edwina Mountbatten. They were brought up together?and during the 1920s were at the centre of London social life. This?present study?is for a three quarter length portrait which Lady Brecknock commissioned from Ranken, who was the painter to 'The Bright Young Things'. He will always be known through his group portrait of the Lygon Family who inspired Evelyn Waugh's
Brideshead Revisited. It was painted
circa 1929 and thus?contemporary?with Ranken's portrait?of Irene Mountbatten, Countess of Carisbrook, cousin of Lord Mountbatten.