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Edwardian portrait miniature of Margaret Crawford Walker by Eleanor M. Ross (fl 1900 -1907), watercolour on ivory
H 6.8cm H 23⁄4"
As a child, wearing white dress and coral necklace
signed on reverse and inscribed Margaret Crawford Walker/Miniature on ivory/by/ Eleanor M. Ross M *M/studio /Mount Rideau/North Berwick/ George St/ Edinburgh
Amongst others, Ross painted portraits of Edith Cavell (celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from both sides without discrimination and in helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German- occupied Belgium) and Princess Alexandra
5123 (1680627/570738/17)
£ 550
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