CADELL AUCTIONED; ART.Byline: SARAH Sarah or Sarai: see Sara. Sarah (flourished early 2nd millennium BC) In the Hebrew scriptures, the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. She was childless until age 90. STACK A PORTRAIT of the wife of Irish artist Sir John Lavery is set to go under the hammer later this month. Lady Lavery in Black, by Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, is estimated to fetch up To overtake. - Addison. To stop suddenly. - L'Estrange. See also: Fetch Fetch to pounds 150,000 at Sotheby's Scottish sale in London. The sophisticated and elegant piece was painted in 1912 during Cadell's greatest period of portrait painting, when he depicted various patrons and their wives and children. The Scottish artist and Sir John Lavery were part of The Society of Eight exhibiting group and met when Co Antrim native Lavery was training in Glasgow. |
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