Lot 27
Violet Bancroft 1914
oil on canvas
signed and dated lower left: Tom Roberts /14'
74.5 x 62cm
Estimate $25,000 - $35,000
The Collection of Mrs Henson Bancroft, England
Thence by descent
Private collection, Melbourne
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 27 June 2010, lot 111
Private collection, Western Australia
Topliss, H., Tom Roberts 1856-1931: A Catalogue Raisonné, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, vol. I, p. 189; vol. II, pl. 196, cat. no. 466 (illus.)
Cotter, J., Tom Roberts & the Art of Portraiture, Thames & Hudson, Port Melbourne, 2015, pp. 318-28 (illus.), fig. 6.46
The sitter was the youngest daughter of Mrs. Henson Bancroft who was a cousin of Tom Roberts. Roberts painted Mrs. Henson Bancroft in 1914 in Widow's Weeds after the death of her husband Henson Bancroft and also painted her children in the same year.
© Tom Roberts/Copyright Agency 2025
A Private Collection of Important Australian Art
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8793
6:00pm - 25 August 2025
Hawthorn
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