• Title
  [Mabel Harriet Lillingston (nee Ogilvie)] 1905 / oil portrait by Lafayette
• Creator
  London Lafayette Limited
• Call number
  ML 1171
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1905
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  152775
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - 102 x 76 cm., in modern frame with fabric lined inner slip, 116 x 90.5 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Mabel Lillingston was the sixth daughter of Edward and Theodosia (nee De Burgh) Ogilvie. She was born on 16 May 1866 at Yulgilbar on the Clarence River, NSW. She married Charles Alfred Gordon Lillingston (b. 1857). Their daughter, Jessie Mary Grey Lillingston married Kenneth Whistler Street. The portrait of Mabel Lillingston passed to their son Roger, whose family presented it to the Mitchell Library. See Annals of the Street Family of Birtley / Kenneth Whistler Street. Sydney, 1941. Location : QA929.2/S Mitchell Library
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Lafayette Ltd. was a large portrait studio in New Bond Street, London, specialising in photography. The studio's distinguished patronage included royalty, prominent people in society and the arts, as well as a stream of foreign visitors, from Japanese diplomats to African princes. During the early 1900s they expanded into painted portraiture, adding a 'Painting Studio' to their premises. According to an advertisement of the time, they 'secured the services of eminent Artists in Oil, Pastel, and Miniature' who painted direct from life. (Reference: History of the Lafayette Photographic Studio, compiled by the Victoria & Albert Musuem)
  This portrait was painted while Mabel and Charles were living in London between 1903-1906 during Jessie's schooling at Wycombe Abbey, Buckinghamshire.
  Digital order no:a128687
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated lower left 'Lafayette 1905'. On the upper stretcher bar on the reverse is the printed label of 'Lechertier Barbe Ltd ... Artists' Colourmen, 95 Jermyn Street, Regent Street, London S.W.'
• Name
  Lillingston, Mabel Harriet (1866-1925)
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Six Notable Women of Yulgilbar - Grafton Regional Gallery (2017)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1655437

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