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Mrs Francis Brady Garvan and Her Four Children 1921

All full-length, Mrs. Garvan seated to the right on a sofa wearing a rose pink evening dress trimmed with gold, gold shoes and a jade necklace, her right arm resting over the end of the sofa, her children Flora and Francis standing behind her to the left; Flora wearing a white dress with pink sash and pink ribbon in her hair and holding a straw hat; Francis wearing a dark suit and white shirt with an Eton collar and a tie; her younger children seated on the sofa to the right, Anthony leaning against his mother wearing a white shirt with a frilled collar and cuffs with a dark velvet jacket and knickerbockers, his sister Mabel seated at the end of the sofa wearing a pink dress and bow in her hair, a doll in her right hand, a painted folding screen behind them and a large green vase with rhododendrons

Oil on canvas, 279.4 x 223.5 cm (110 x 88 in.)

Inscribed lower left: de László / Roslyn House 1921 August

Sitters’ Book II, f. 26: Mabel Brady Garvan July 20th 1921 / Roslyn, Long Island / Franacis (sic) O. Garvan Jr. / Flora B. Garvan / Mabel B. Garvan, and Francis P. Garvan, / [in the artist’s hand: New York 13 aug. …]

Philadelphia Museum of Art, U.S.A.

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