Mrs Dominic Skinner nee Claire Geensen Country Life Magazine Portrait June 28 2001

Mrs Dominic Skinner nee Miss Claire Geensen Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, June 28, 2001. CXCV No. 26

Mrs Dominic Skinner - Miss Claire Geensen, daughter of Mr and Mrs John Geensen, of Middelburg, the Netherlands, was recently married to Mr Dominic Skinner, younger son of Mr and Mrs Peter Skinner, of Highway Farm, Downside, Surrey. Claire is shown here at Castle ter Hooge, her family home in the Netherlands, where the reception was held. Aged 24, she graduated from Edinburgh University with a degree in biomedicine and is now studying to be a homeopath.

This is an authentic original page from Country Life magazine, part of the iconic series often affectionately referred to as the “Girls in Pearls” portraits — elegant society images that captured a distinctive era of British publishing and portraiture.

Size: Approximately 12.5 x 9 inches (32 x 23 cm)

Condition: Very good for its age. As with all vintage magazine pages, light signs of handling or minor age-related blemishes may be present. Please review the large photo carefully for full condition details. The reverse side contains unrelated printed text, as issued.

This original Country Life Magazine frontispiece portrait forms part of The Old Map Shop’s curated archive of society portraits published between 1897 and 2026.