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Painted by her father, Lilian Eldée (the stage name of Lilian Bertha Stuart-Wortley, c.1870–1904) leans on a red chaise, with a grand piano and music on the right and music books at her feet. She wears a deep red dress and a long glove on her left hand, also visible on occasional postcards. This could relate to her social status, or to show her well-lit right hand as her ‘creative’ one; or it may have no meaning. An inscription plaque reads: ‘My plea to the world in defence of my life was that I at least devoted it to the cultivation of the little garden God gave me, and laboured if only to be one of the ninety-nine whose footsteps keep the path clear, and for the hundredth whose talents beautify the world. My plea to God, ‘He knows’.
Title
Lilian Eldée (Lillian Bertha Duncombe, née Stuart-Wortley, 1870–1904)
Date
1901
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 196 x W 154 cm
Accession number
2003.1084
Acquisition method
presented by Colonel C. W. E. Duncombe, the sitter's husband, 1911
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
too dark to see but see inscription plaque which is separate
Royal Academy of Music
Marylebone Road, London, Greater London NW1 5HT England
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