Image: The Queen, 3 Nov 1894.

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• History: exhibited 1894, no. 9 (location?).
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No. 9. “A PORTRAIT.” BY S. ISABEL DACRE. / The lady here spiritedly depicted is Mrs E. E. Houghton, a cousin of Mr Walter Crane, and she herself both an authoress and artist of note. She is represented seated, and is wearing a yellowish dress of light material. The artist, Miss Dacre, studied at Julien’s in Paris, and afterwards in Italy. She is a member of the Manchester Academy, and is well known in that city as a leading portrait painter.

The Queen, 3 Nov 1894.

The subject is Ellen Elizabeth Houghton, 1853-1922, artist and illustrator of children’s books.

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