Inscribed, dated and signed l.r.: Madge Metcalfe/Banbury/ 26.vii.1905/JES

Pencil, 17.5 by 11 cm (6 ¾ by 4 ¼ ins)

Provenance: the artist’s cousin Isabel Harlock and thence by descent

Margaret Metcalf was the daughter of Leonard Metcalf, the accountant and manager of the busy Banbury wharf of the Oxford Canal.  She was born in 1896 and she would therefore have been aged nine at the time of this portrait.  The Metcalfs lived in Banbury Market Place, close to John Harlock’s drapery shop and it is likely they may have been family friends.