Lot 125: Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941) HENRY D.

Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941) HENRY D. JAMESON, AGED 17, 1912 signed with initials and dated lower left; inscribed upper right oil on canvas 64 by 51cm., 25 by 20in. Inscribed "Henry D. Jameson ÆTAT 17" and in a good quality Kent frame. Henry D'Arcy Jameson, of Delvin Lodge, Co. Dublin, was the son of Robert D'Arcy Jameson by his second wife, Eva Harrison, who was possibly a relation of the artist's. Certainly, S. C. Harrison (known as Celia to her friends) exhibited a portrait of Henry's father, Robert Jameson, at the RHA in 1921. Henry D'Arcy Jameson was a lieutenant with the South Irish Horse during the First World War. In 1926 he married Isabelle Eileen Preston, eldest daughter of Alexander Preston Jones of Enniscorthy, and by her had one son, Robert Alexander Jameson, who later settled at Calary House, Ballinastoe, Kilpedder, Co. Wicklow (see Burke's Irish Family Records, London, 1976, p. 628).