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MASTER AUBREY LANE Walter Frederick Osborne RHA (1859-1903)
Signature: signed and dated [1891] lower right; Medium: pastel Dimensions: 72 by 43cm., 28.5 by 17in. Provenance: The Lane family by descent; Christie's, 15 May 2003, lot 41; With the Oriel Gallery, Dublin Exhibited: 'Memorial Exhibition of Osborne's Work', RHA, Dublin, Winter 1903-1904, catalogue no. 200 or 207 as Pastel Portrait, lent by Mrs Lane W. Aubrey Lane Esq. is listed in the Thom’s Directories from 1909 to 1935 practicing as a solicitor from an address at 13 Hume Street and at Limavady. In the original giltwood frame with the frame mak... ker’s label of J. D. Spence, 7 Lower Sackville Street Dublin, on reverse. In 1891 Osborne completed at least two known pastel portraits of the Lane family children: the present portrait of Aubrey Lane and another of his brother Hugh. The latter work was exhibited that year at the RHA (catalogue no. 150) and Bodkin mentioned it in his book, Four Irish Landscape Painters (Talbot Press, Dublin, 1920, page 122), noting by way of clarification that it was not the late Sir Hugh Lane. After Osborne’s death in 1903, the RHA mounted a memorial exhibition, to which “Mrs Lane” loaned two works, each simply titled Pastel Portrait, and which were almost certainly the portraits of young Aubrey and Hugh Lane more