Description:

signed, inscribed and dated: For S. P. Cockerell / from his old friend Fred Leighton / July 1890
black and white chalk on brown paper
140 x 215 mm

Provenance:

Given by the artist to Samuel Peyps Cockerell,
By descent to Frederica Huddart (the sitter, and daughter of the above),
By descent
 

Note:

The sitter for this affectionate study is Frederica Cockerell, the daughter of Leighton’s close friend and confidant Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1844 – 1905).