The second of seven daughters. Her mother and Father were Charles Ayles, a “Provisional Merchant” and Louise Ayles, the daughter of an accountant. She is thought to be around 13 years of age in this portrait.
Philip Tennyson Cole was an English society portrait painter in both oils and watercolours. His father was a successful painter under whom he studied. In 1885 he married the actress Alice Mary Sainsbury who supported him financially. In 1889 he went to Tasmania and he spent the next few years traveling and painting, as well as making his name in Australasia and South Africa.
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