Lot 480: Emma Brownlow (1832-1905) A DUTCH BOY AND GIRL IN

Emma Brownlow (1832-1905) A DUTCH BOY AND GIRL IN A CHURCH INTERIOR signed and indistinctly dated 186(6?) oil on canvas 29.5 x 24cms; 11 1/2 x 9 1/2in. NB Brownlow was one of three daughters of John Brownlow, a long-time secretary of the Foundling Hospital, Bloomsbury, London, an institution for which in 1858 and subsequently 1867 she was commissioned to paint a series of four BidMaster Office 26 compositions illustrating life at the institution and which now hang in the Foundling Museum. She was known as Emma Brownlow King after her marriage to the singer Donald King in 1867.