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Portrait of Hugh Lane's Mother, Adelaide Lane, nee Persse
Portrait of Hugh Lane's Mother, Adelaide Lane, nee Persse

Portrait of Hugh Lane's Mother, Adelaide Lane, nee Persse

Artist (1854 - 1937)
Date1901
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions58 x 47 cm
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Purchased, 2001.
Object number1959
DescriptionAdelaide Persse’s family home was at Roxborough House, Co. Galway. Considered the family beauty her engagement to the Rev. James Lane was received with great disappointment by her family and The Rev. and Mrs Lane were unfortunately to discover in married life that they had little in common except their children. Adelaide was regarded as a kind mother and of all her children she was particularly close to Hugh. He learned the piano and rudimentary French as a child but his chief joy according to William Orpen was needlework and objects while with his mother’s family at Roxborough looking at the pictures there. (JO'D)

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Rev. J. W. Lane
Rev. J. W. Lane
Sir William Orpen
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Mrs Lucy de Laszlo
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Philip Alexius de László de Lombos
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Miss Maud Gonne
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Sarah Henrietta Purser
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Decorative Group
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Augustus Edwin John
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The Artist's Studio
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Lady Gregory
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The Most Rev. William Alexander, Protestant Bishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
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Rev. J. P. Mahaffy, D.D., C.V.D., etc.
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