Antique miniature portraits of the Tormey-Holder Collection

 

 


English Artist: Felicity Campbell

 

 

Portrait miniature by Felicity Campbell of Sir Andrew Ashton Waller Hills, 1st Baronet of Hills Court, Kent, at the age of five, wearing a sailor suit and holding a toy sailboat

Sir Andrew Ashton Waller Hills (1933-1955),
1st Baronet of Hills Court, Kent, at the Age of Five,
Wearing a Sailor Suit and Holding a Toy Sailboat

English
dated 1939
by Felicity Campbell (1915-1995)

(Signed "F. Campbell", obverse, lower right edge)

1 7/8 x 2 3/8 inches (sight)

watercolor on ivory; housed under glass in a gilded brass frame

 

 

A view of the portrait outside its case, allowing its colors and
brush strokes to be seen more clearly without the distortion or
reflection typically caused by the glass lens of a miniature's case
(Click + symbol above for an enlarged view)

 

 

A view of the backing paper behind the portrait
with notes inscribed by the artist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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