EMILE WAUTERS (1846-1933) PORTRAIT OF NORA BELL signed and dated '90

EMILE WAUTERS (1846-1933) PORTRAIT OF NORA BELL signed and dated '90, pastel, 76 x 56cm, unframedProvenance: By descent in the family of the sitter to the present vendor.A portrait of the nine year old daughter of Isaac Bell, Jr (1846-1889) by his wife Jeanette Gordon Bennett (1855-1936) daughter of James Gordon Bennett, Sr (1795-1872) whom he married in 1878.Her father was United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (1885-1888) and her maternal grandfather was the proprietor of the New York Herald which he founded in 1835. His son, and Nora Bell's uncle was the bon vivant James Gordon Bennett, Jr (1841-1918), usually known as Gordon Bennett. Nora Bell (New York 1881-1944 Hertfordshire) later married Lt Colonel Wilfred Francis Ricardo, DSO, Household Cavalry (1868-1950). The Belgian artist Emile Wauters, a pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme, was a painter of American and European society portraits and history pieces.