Portrait of Margaret Williams, daughter of Thomas Williams of Pencoed Castle, oil on panel, initialled B.T.B. bottom right, measurements 70 x 51 cm, frame 85 x 66 cm, together with a paired portrait of the same sitter by the same hand, measurements 75 x 55 cm, frame 90 x 72 cm (2)

Margaret Williams was the daughter of Thomas Williams, born in 1880 while the family were still living in the Llanmartin area and held the estate of Pencoed Castle farm. Thomas and his family relocated to Shropshire in the 1880s, eventually settling near Bridgnorth in Shropshire. Margaret married Frederick Brookes in 1912 and they had a farm in the nearby area which they ran with their children. Halls Fine Art are grateful to Michael Edwards and Athena Ancestry for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.

Provenance: Consigned from a private house in South Shropshire