Lot 177: WOLFRAM ONSLOW FORD (BRITISH, BORN 1880)

WOLFRAM ONSLOW FORD (BRITISH, BORN 1880)
Portrait of Clothilde Enid Widdrington, née Onlsow Ford (1877-1952), bust-length, in profile, in a cream dress
oil on panel, unframed
13 x 9¼ in. (33 x 23.5 cm.)

Inventory and Valuation of the contents of Newton Hall, Felton, Morpeth, Northumberland, The Property of Brigadier General B. F. Widdrington, C.M.G., D.S.O., 1925, p. 138.

The Onslow Ford Family and Newton Hall

Clothilde Enid (1877-1952), daughter of Victorian artist and sculptor Edward Onslow Ford, R.A. (1852-1901) married firstly Philip Riviere and secondly Brigadier-General Bertram Fitzherbert Widdrington (1873-1942) in 1912. Clothilde was painted by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema in 1888 and together with her brothers Rudolph (b.1875), Wolfram (b.1877) and Max (b.1883); father of surrealist painter Gordon Max Onslow Ford (1912-2003), grew up amidst the artistic milieu occupied by their father and his fellow Royal Academicians.
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