Lot 54
Brontë (Charlotte) 2 cabinet portrait photographs of Charlotte Brontë, taken from the celebrated portrait by George Richmond in 1850, decorated brass frames, [not before 1850].
Hammer Price: £800
Description
Brontë [married name Nicholls] (Charlotte [pseud. Currer Bell], novelist, 1816-1855) 2 cabinet portrait photographs of Charlotte Brontë, taken from the celebrated portrait by George Richmond in 1850, decorated brass frames, tarnished, housed in a leather pouch, each 65 x 52mm., [not before 1850].
⁂ "George Smith [publisher]... persuaded [Charlotte]... that she ought to have her portrait painted and had undertaken to pay for sittings with George Richmond... . When she arrived at the studio, she was in a state of heightened nerves and great anxiety. It needed little to push her over the brink and that little was the wretched hairpiece. George Richmond was puzzled when she removed her hat to see what he took to be a pad of brown merino on her head and, unable to imagine what its purpose was, asked her to remove it. Not surprisingly, Charlotte burst into tears of mortification. When she was finally allowed to see the finished work, she again burst into tears, exclaiming that it was so like her sister Anne." - Juliet Barker, The Brontës, p. 644, 1995.
Description
Brontë [married name Nicholls] (Charlotte [pseud. Currer Bell], novelist, 1816-1855) 2 cabinet portrait photographs of Charlotte Brontë, taken from the celebrated portrait by George Richmond in 1850, decorated brass frames, tarnished, housed in a leather pouch, each 65 x 52mm., [not before 1850].
⁂ "George Smith [publisher]... persuaded [Charlotte]... that she ought to have her portrait painted and had undertaken to pay for sittings with George Richmond... . When she arrived at the studio, she was in a state of heightened nerves and great anxiety. It needed little to push her over the brink and that little was the wretched hairpiece. George Richmond was puzzled when she removed her hat to see what he took to be a pad of brown merino on her head and, unable to imagine what its purpose was, asked her to remove it. Not surprisingly, Charlotte burst into tears of mortification. When she was finally allowed to see the finished work, she again burst into tears, exclaiming that it was so like her sister Anne." - Juliet Barker, The Brontës, p. 644, 1995.
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