Lot 3: Edward Hughes (1832-1908)

Edward Hughes (1832-1908)
Portrait of Vere Monckton-Arundell, seated three-quarter-length, in a white evening dress holding lilies in a landscape
signed and dated 'Edward Hughes/1889' (lower left)
oil on canvas, unframed
52½ x 38¼ in. (133.4 x 97.3 cm)

George Edmund Milnes Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway (1844-1931) and thence by descent.

Vere Monckton-Arundell (née Gosling) was the only daughter of Ellis Gosling of Busbridge Hall, Surrey. She succeeded to the title of Viscountess Galway upon her marriage to the 7th Viscount in 1879. She was invested as a Lady of Justice, Order of St. John of Jerusalem (L.J.St.J.).