Lot 599
*Rice Oxley (Margaret, 1888-1968). Autumn Fairies, watercolour, depicting a small boy and a lady in lace-edged dress seated on a river bank beneath a tree in autumn, with fairies and elves cavorting in tree and stream trying to catch the falling leaves, against a hill and landscape vista, one or two very short closed edge tears, signed lower left, 47 x 35cm (18.5 x 13.75ins), mounted, framed and glazed Provenance: Purchased by the current owner approximately twenty years ago from a lady who bought the painting at the sale of effects of Mary Rice Oxley (1887-1965), sister of Margaret, in Shrewsbury in the mid 1960s. Curiously for such a fine watercolourist, little is known about the life and work of Margaret Rice Oxley. (1)
