Description
A beautiful and historic painting. A still life oil on board of a wilting bunch of flowers that are past their best in a blue ground vase by Lady Caroline Blanche Elizabeth Lindsay. The sheer beauty of this lovely painting is matched by the lady who painted it, apparently. There is something quite mesmeric about the tilting heads of the flowers still in the vase in their downward lunge to join those flower heads and leaves that have already escaped the confines of the vessel. The painting is mounted under glass with a gilded wooden mount in a gilt frame which is showing it’s age. The frame is 49 x 44 cm with the painting itself measuring 26 x 20 cm.
Lady Caroline Blanche Elizabeth Lindsay (nee Fitzroy) British 1844-1912 was the grand daughter of Mayer Rothschild, daughter of Hon Henry Fitzroy and wife of Sir Coutts Lindsay (2nd Bt.). She was a serious patron of the arts, herself being an author, poet, musician and artist. Along with her husband she set up and financed The Grosvenor Gallery which was to become the centre of The Aesthetic Movement in the 1880’s. She was a member of The New Society of Painters in Watercolour, The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and Society of Women Artists.
