Rosalind (from ‘As You Like It’ by William Shakespeare)
This oil painting has the inscription ‘Presented to Bert in Commemoration of his Parent’s Golden Wedding 1 February 1910’ in Merton Russell-Cotes’ handwriting.
John McLure Hamilton was an Anglo-American artist. He was born in Philadelphia, but lived in England for fifty-eight years where he was an official portrait painter to William Ewart Gladstone, prime minister to the United Kingdon.
