Eden Upton Eddis

Inscriptionback to top

Signed with initials and dated in pencil under chair arm: ‘W.H. 18.11.91’;
inscr. in ink lower right: ‘– Eden Upton Eddis –’ followed by ‘LONDON’ in pencil.

This portraitback to top

This drawing is part of a large sequence of portraits by (William) Walker Hodgson depicting figures associated with the arts. For discussion of a group from this sequence also in the Gallery, see NPG collection 4041(1–5).

Carol Blackett-Ord

Physical descriptionback to top

Half-length, seated and looking to left, wearing spectacles, with carved chairback behind head.

Provenanceback to top

Coll. Personal Service League, 1934; Appleby Brothers, 1957; Christopher Wood Gallery, 1984; purchased Phillips, 6 Oct. 1986 (118).

Exhibitionsback to top

A Fraternity of Artists, Christopher Wood Gallery, London, 1984 (30). The dimensions do not fully match but this was almost certainly same drawing.

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