Cheshire Antiques Consultant

Oil Painting Portrait of a Young Lady In Blue Dress Signed by George Percy Jacomb-Hood

£20,000.00

Shipping calculated at checkout.

Make those walls pop with this stunning Victorian must-have! This oil painted portrait of a young lady in a blue dress, signed by the great George Percy Jacomb-Hood, is perfect for anyone looking to add a little drama to their space. But hurry – this beauty won't be around for long!
Subject portrait of a beautiful young lady in half-length front profile facing the viewer with a loving gaze. She is wearing a traditional blue dress with a white ruff frilly collar and she has thick brown hair, with blue eyes, cherry lips and light skin rose cheeks complexion she is projecting such beauty, elegance in her pose.
Title " A portrait of a young lady wearing a blue dress with a white collar"
Circa late 19th century to 89 to 1889.
Oil on panel.
Nice size with the frame being 49.5 cm high and 39 cm wide.
Presented in the original magnificent gilt gestoses frame.
So collectible and sought after the subject portraiture matter.
Signed by the well-known British artist George Percy Jacomb-Hood.
Biography of the artist George Percy Jacomb-Hood MVO R.B.A (6 July 1857 – 11 December 1929) was a painter, etcher and illustrator. He was a founding member of the New English Art Club and Society of Portrait Painters. Early life- Dermacomb was born on 6 July 1857 at Redhill in Surrey, the fourth of nine children (two of whom died in infancy) of Robert Dermacomb (1822–1900) and Jane Stothard Littlewood (1827–1869). His grandfather, a yeoman farmer in Essex, was born Robert Jacomb (1794–1857), but was a cousin of William Hood, the last male member of his family, who left his estate at Bardon, Leicestershire to him on condition that he took the additional surname of Hood, the estate having been in the Hood family since the 1620s. His father was Chief Engineer on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway from 1846 to 1860.
Jacomb-Hood was educated at Tunbridge School and the Slade School of Fine Art as well as studying while touring abroad in Paris and Madrid. He was a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, the Savile Club, was Honorary Treasurer of the Chelsea Arts Club, a member of the New English Art Club and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. He exhibited at the first exhibition of the Society of Graphic Art in London in 1921. His Career - Jacomb-Hood regularly produced illustrations for The Graphic, which gave him a number of overseas assignments.
In 1896, the magazine sent him to Greece and to Delhi in 1902. He accompanied the Prince and Princess of on their 1905 tour of India and was a member of George V's personal staff on his 1911 tour of India.[5] He also painted Madeleine Shaw-Lefevre in her role as principal of Somerville College, Oxford. He wrote an autobiography in 1925, entitled With Brush and Pencil.
Dermacomb married The Hon Henrietta Kemble de Hochepied-Larpent (1867–1941), daughter of Arthur de Hoche pied Lar pent, 8th Baron de Hochepied on 28 June 1910. his marriage, John Singer Sargent, a friend and neighbor of Bachelorhood's in Chelsea, gave them his watercolor Italian Sailing Vessels at Anchor (c 1904–07) inscribed "to my friend Jacob Hood" and he is now at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, presented in 1943 by her sister and heiress. Known as Eta, her sister The Hon Sybil Marguerite Gonne de Hochepied-Larpent, ONE (1867–1941) married Philip Napier Miles and Dermacomb was a friend of his cousin Frank Miles. Another sister, The Hon Clarissa Catherine de Hochepied-Larpent, married the soldier and artist Colonel Robert Charles Goff. The Monks-Hood lived in Chelsea after Frank Miles's death, when Bachelorhood's father bought Miles's house in Tite Street from his executors and also had a house in Rye, East Sussex. He died on 11 December 1929 at Philip Napier Miles's villa at Alassio in Italy.
Reference Sources
1.   Blackett-Ord, Carol. "George Percy Jacomb-Hood". Biographies. National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
2.   "History of ownership of Bardon Park - Bardon Park Chapel". Archived from the original on 5 September 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
3.   "Robert Jacomb-Hood". Grace's Guide to British Industrial History. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
4.   "List of Members", Catalog of the First Annual Exhibition of the Society of Graphic Art, London: Society of Graphic Art: 45–48, January 1921
5.   Brian Stewart & Mervyn Cutten (1997). The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-173-2.
6.   Hood, George Percy Jacomb (1925). "With brush and pencil".
7.   "The descendants of William Jacomb".
8.   HTTP://sarcomatoidally/news/96850/Dulwich-hosts-major-exhibition-of-watercolours-by-John-Singer-Sargent#.XSjLOGdYaUk[bare URL]
9.   HTTP://www.waeve.co.uk/genealogy/deHochepied/TOCP.pdf[bare URL PDF]
10.   Death certificate in Register of Births, Marriages and Deaths
11.   Wright, Christopher; Gordon, Catherine May (2006). British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. ISBN 0300117302.
Provenance label verso.
We select & sell our paintings based solely upon subject, quality & significance.
Highly sought after work of art.
Condition report.
Offered in fine used condition. The front painted surface is in good overall order with some scuffs, scratches, dirt on the surface in places and minor paint loss on the sides. The frame has general wear, chips, losses, scuffs in places commensurate with usage & old age. Could do with a professional clean.
We offer our clients exceptional professional customer service.
International buyers worldwide shipping is available.
Viewings are welcome by appointment only for customer support. Please send a message thank you.
Browse our other exciting Fine Arts and antiques & collectibles available in our shop gallery.

Dimensions in centimetres of the frame

High (49.5 cm)
Wide (39 cm)
Depth (3 cm)