Rose Balston and Annabel Howard Country Life Magazine Portrait July 7 2010

Miss Rose Balston and Miss Annabel Howard Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, July 7 2010. CCIV No. 27

Miss Rose Balston and Miss Annabel Howard - Rose, 26, and Annabel, 25, are pictured in the Art Deco Eltham Palace at Greenwich. Both lecture for Art History Abroad and spend much of their time teaching together in Italy. Rose has recently set up Art History UK exploring the culture of London, and Annabel is writing a biography of Florentine painter Jacopo Pontormo, a friend of Michelangelo.

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.