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- Video: George Holt
- 'Mother and Child', James John Hill
- 'Margate Harbour', JMW Turner
- 'Dutch Boats Beating Into the Scheldt', Edward William Cooke
- 'Mrs Elizabeth Holt'
- 'Emma Holt', Percy Bigland
- 'George Holt senior', Philip Westcott
- 'Emma Durning Holt and Anne Holt', Philip Westcott
- 'Jane Durning', Thomas Arrowsmith
- 'William Durning', Thomas Arrowsmith
- 'Watching Dog', Briton Riviere
- 'The Sailing Ship Emma', Samuel Walters
- George Holt', Robert E Morrison
- 'A Treatise on Parrots', Henry Stacy Marks
- 'Gypsy Sisters of Seville', John Phillip
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'Mrs Elizabeth Holt, George Henry

Formal portrait of a seated elderly woman

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The Scottish artist, best known for the Japanese influences in his youthful pictures, was an unusual choice for this commission: a presentation portrait of Elizabeth, George Holt’s widow, on her eightieth birthday.

The portrait was shown at the Liverpool Autumn Exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in 1914.

Artwork Details

Medium and Support: Oil on canvas
Date: 1913
Accession No: WAG 241