Emily & Isabel Macpherson c1870s
Portrait of Emily Macpherson c1870s contact us for more information
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
81 x 63.5 cm
Inscribed with Chinese characters on reverse
Portrait of Isabel Macpherson c1870s
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
81 x 63.5 cm
Inscribed with Chinese characters on reverse
A pair in the original wood veneer frames
Provenance:
By descent in the family until 2006
Emily was born in 1863, daughter of John Macpherson (1829-1915) and Elizabeth (Macdonald) (1832-1894).
She married Frederic Moore in 1887 and she was the mother of the artist, John D. Moore.
Isabel, her sister, was born in 1867. She married Robert Aitken a flourmiller. She was N.S.W. Associate Golf Champion in 1910.
John Macpherson was an ironmonger and head of the firm, Holdsworth, Macpherson and Co. of Sydney. He was a Waverley councillor for many years and nine times Mayor of Waverley
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