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Portrait of John Ellison McCartney Holding a Football

Harold Speed (1872-1957)


Price
£30,000

Signed
Signed and dated 1911

Medium
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
62 x 26 ½ inches

Provenance
The sitter and by descent to his Godson

Exhibited
'Chris Beetles Summer Show 2025', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, June-September 2025, no 83

The Ellison McCartneys were an Irish family whose seat was Clogher Park, County Tyrone. The Rt Hon Sir William Grey Ellison McCartney (1852-1924), possibly the sitter’s father, was a governor of Western Australia.