Portrait of an Unidentifed Councillor
Oil portrait by Miles de Montmorency of an unidentified councillor. 1942
Head and shoulders portrait of a man with receding hair looking straight out at the viewer, wearing a dark blue suit.
Artist
de Montmorency, Miles Fletcher (Sir)
Materials
oil (paint)
canvas
gilded (frame)
glass
Object Type
painting
Production Dates
20th Century
painted - 1942
Artist Biography
Miles Fletcher de Montmorency (1893–1963) Miles de Montmorency was a British painter and the 17th Baronet Morres of Knockagh, County Tipperary. Son of Hervey Lodge de Montmorency and husband of stained glass artist Rachel de Montmorency, he studied at Dover School of Art, the Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art, and the Royal Academy Schools. He exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy and with war artists, and was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1935, later serving as its honorary librarian. He authored A Short History of Painting in England.
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