Anthony Augustus Frederick Sandys (1829-1904)
Reine Chapman and her Pug
Chalks; signed, inscribed 'Reine Chapman', and dated 1881
28 ¾ x 21 ¼ inches
POA
The sitter is Marion Reine Chapman (1877-1951). She was the daughter of Frederic Chapman and his second wife Annie Marion Harding. Her father was a partner of the publishers Chapman & Hall who published the work of Charles Dickens, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning among others. She first married Harold Brooke Alder in 1895. They were divorced in 1918 and she then married Alexander Stewart Rintoul.
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