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Artist
John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, 31 Dec 1850 - 25 Apr 1938
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Portrait
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Gilbert Grosvenor Coville
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Object number
NPG.85.74
Provenance
Lilian Grosvenor Jones, granddaughter of sitter; her son Gilbert Grosvenor Coville, Miami; gift 1985 to NPG
Letter Gilbert G. Coville to Robert Stewart 24 October 1985. According to Joseph Jones, husband of Lilian Jones, it was painted from life in 1919. Phone conversation with Robert Stewart 3 October 1985
