Portrait of Nellie Martha Ross.

Date Created

1896

Identifier

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 97/342
a5577

Description

Verso mount in blue ink: This portrait of Nellie Martha Ross (later Mrs Andrew Jensen) was painted by her father, Thomas Ross, & by Senor Nerli, together at Ravensbourne. She was 14 years old at the time. This would be about 1896. The same two men also painted a similar portrait of Alma Mabel Ross - now held by her son, Charles E. George; label: Palmer Dunedin.

Extent

650 x 493 mm

Medium

pastel on paper (pasted to strawboard)

Temporal Coverage

Provenance

Hocken Library Endowment Fund.

Genre

Portraits

Files

a5577.jpg

Citation

Nerli, Girolamo Pieri, 1860-1926 and Ross, Thomas, 1854-1943, “Portrait of Nellie Martha Ross.,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed November 22, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/5524.