Miss Leonie Buxton Country Life Magazine Portrait May 21 2008

Miss Leonie Buxton Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, May 21 2008. CCII No. 21

Miss Leonie Buxton - Leonie, aged 28, is the eldest daughter of Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs Charles Buxton, of The Pleasaunce, Overstrand, Norfolk. Educated at Sherborne, she travelled and worked abroad for four years before returning to London to work in PR and advertising. A keen polo player, she has recently come back from a three-month break in South America, where she was playing polo in Buenos Aires. Leonie has just started a new role working in a hedge fund in Mayfair.

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.