Portrait of Amelia Williams, Mrs Hodges of Undy, of Pencoed Castle, Monmouthshire, oil on panel, initialled B.B. centre right, measurements 75 x 60 cm, frame 90 x 75 cm. Together with a portrait of an infant member of the Williams family by the same hand, measurements 75 x 52 cm, frame 90 x 68 cm (2)

Amelia Williams was the eldest child of Margaret and George Williams of Pencoed Castle. She first married local farmer Thomas Hillier in 1872 with whom she had no issue. Following her husband's death in 1883 she remarried William Hodges in 1888 aged 43 and lived at Holly Cottage, Vinegar Hill in Undy. Her mother Margaret came to live with her upon her retirement in 1895, by which date Amelia was a widow again. Her mother died in 1902 and left the remainder of her estate worth £483 3s 3d to Amelia,

In the 1880s a branch of the Williams family, under Thomas Williams, relocated to Shropshire from Llanmartin.

Halls Fine Art are grateful to Michael Edwards of Athena Ancestry and Janet Myers of Llanmartin for their assistance with cataloguing this lot.

Provenance: Consigned from a private house in South Shropshire