Miss Clare Smith Country Life Magazine Portrait February 6 2003

Miss Clare Smith Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, February 6, 2003. CXCVII No. 6

Miss Clare Smith - Clare, 28, a specialist in the Victorian pictures department at Christie's, is currently co-ordinating the sale of the Forbes Collection of Victorian Pictures and Works of Art from Old Battersea House (see page 45). She is shown there with An Athlete Wrestling with a Python, by Frederic, Lord Leighton, and paintings from the collection. A graduate of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and the Courtauld, Clare is the elder daughter of the Honourable Philip and Mrs Smith, of Campden House, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire.

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.