QUENNELL (Sir PETER COURTNEY, 1905-1993, author and critic) WATER-COLOUR PORTRAIT OF PETER QUENNELL AND HIS TEDDY BEAR, half-length, profile facing left, showing Quennell at the age of seven years, hand on hip, with his teddy bear, by his mother Marjorie Quennell, signed and dated 1912 by the artist, name of sitter in capitals in the upper left-hand corner after the style of Holbein, size of aperture 18¾ x 13 inches, overall size 28½ x 22½ inches, 1912

In his autobiography, The Marble Foot, Peter Quennell writes of his mother's ambition to be a serious artist. She assisted her husband 'C. H. B.' in the illustration of Everyday Things in England.

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