Alice Mary Hope-Edwardes House under the Crags

An original late 19th-century watercolour painting, A.M. Hope-Edwardes, House under the Crags.

An attractive watercolour from a small collection that we have for sale by or associated with Alice Mary Hope-Edwardes (b.1863).

Alice Mary was the daughter of Joseph C. Bradney, Rector of Greete, Shropshire, who died in Bristol in 1868. Her brother, Joseph Alfred Bradney (1859–1933), was a prominent British historian and antiquarian, renowned for his monumental work on the history of Monmouthshire, Wales.

In 1886 she married Rev St Leger Frederick Hope-Edwardes MA, Rector of Greete. Her husband was part of the wealthy, landowning Hope-Edwardes family of Netley Hall, Netley, Shropshire. Twenty-three years her senior, he died at Marseilles in 1899. After her husband's death Alice Mary lived at Wharton Lodge, near Ross, Herefordshire.

Alice Mary Hope-Edwardes' portrait was painted by the artist Frederic Yates (1854–1919).

In watercolour with graphite. On watercolour paper.