Description

This keenly perceptive portrait of Susanna Anderson Rose (1795–1870) was painted when the sitter was 67 years old. The fine network of lines on her face are meticulously observed as are her silver gray curls and pale blue eyes. Frederick Sandys’s ability to render detail is evident in the subject’s bonnet, elaborately trimmed with lace and azure ribbon, and the texture of her brown fur cloak.

Provenance

The sitter, Mrs. Susanna Rose [1795-1870] London, England, by descent to her son, Col. Sir William Anderson Rose; Col. Sir William Anderson Rose [1820-1881] London, England, by descent to his granddaughter, Adria Rose Oxley; His granddaughter, Adria Rose Oxley of Kilravock Castle. Her husband, Lt. Col. M. S. Oxley. Their daughter, Valerie Oxley of Tidworth, Hampshire.; Their daughter, Valerie Oxley of Tidworth, Hampshire. London sale, Christie's, 2 February 1979 (lot 82, repr.), Portrait of Mrs. Susanna Rose, aged 67 years, for £7,000.; (Fischer Fine Art, Ltd., London, United Kingdom, 1979, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (-1979); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1979-)