[Portrait Photographs]: Two Portraits of Lady Lavery, each Signed by Hoppé

London: E.O. Hoppé, [circa 1915].

Price: $1,800.00

Unbound. Two mounted gelatin silver photographs of Lady Lavery, each is Signed by Hoppé in the lower right corner of the image, and each has the label or stamp of Hoppé on the verso of the mount. Each is in fine condition. One image is 5.5" x 8"; the other is 4.5" x 6". In each image Lavery is in an elaborate costume with impressive head gear. On the verso of one mount Lavery is identified, with an additional note: "To Be Returned to: Miss Hepworth Dixon, Empress Club, 35 Dover St., Piccadilly." Chicago-born Hazel Martyn was accounted a notable beauty and became Hazel, Lady Lavery after her marriage to the Anglo-Irish portrait artist Sir John Lavery. She was herself a painter. Her likeness appeared on Banknotes of Ireland for much of the 20th Century, until they were replaced in 2002 by the Euro. Both the Lavery's and Hoppé's studios were in South Kensington. Hazel Lavery was a very frequent subject for her husband. Ella Hepworth Dixon was an English feminist, novelist, and editor who was herself of Anglo-English descent. In 1888 she took the editorship of *The Woman's World* at Oscar Wilde's urging. She also wrote the feminist novel *The Story of a Modern Woman* (1894) which resulted in Dixon's nickname the "New Woman." Two lovely images uniting three interesting figures in the English literary and art world.

Item #397584

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Item #397584 [Portrait Photographs]: Two Portraits of Lady Lavery, each Signed by Hoppé. E. O. HOPPÉ.
[Portrait Photographs]: Two Portraits of Lady Lavery, each Signed by Hoppé
[Portrait Photographs]: Two Portraits of Lady Lavery, each Signed by Hoppé