Sir William George Vernon Harcourt. "The Bishop of Briarwood.

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• ARTIST: Sir Charles Garden Assheton-Smith

• MEDIUM: Watercolor and pencil.

  DATE: 1899

• EDITION SIZE: Paper size 13 3/4 x 9 5/8" (34.8 x 24.4

• DESCRIPTION: An original satirical watercolor portrait of Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt by Charles Garden Duff (Sir Charles Garden Assheton-Smith)<br><br> Title in pencil The Bishop of Briarwood (? somewhat illegible). Signed in in “C.G.D. 1899.”<br><br> Harcourt was a British lawyer, journalist and Liberal statesman. He was Member of Parliament for Oxford, Derby, then West Monmouthshire and held the offices of Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under William Ewart Gladstone.<br><br> It is likely that this watercolor was one of two drawn for possible use in Vanity Fair. There were two watercolors drawn of Harcourt in 1899 by “Duff” whose Vanity Fair pseudonym was “Cloister”. One shows his dressed up as a monk and the other, this drawing, as a Reverand. The image of him as a monk was used and illustrated in the May 11th issue of Vanity Fair. <br>

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• CONDITION: Good condition and color save for a few minor fox marks.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Drawings, Watercolors & Paintings