01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, The Honourable John Maler Collier's Mrs Ina De La Haye, with Footnotes #200

John Maler Collier (BRITISH, 1850-1934)

Mrs Ina De La Haye

Oil on canvas

131 x 84cm (51 9/16 x 33 1/16in)

Private collection

Sold for £17,500 in March 2017

Ina De La Haye was a Russian born actress and singer. Born in St, Petersburg in 1906, Fedosia and her younger brother Ilya fled Russia following the Revolution. By 1921 she was working as a correspondent for a journal in Riga, and by 1924 she had entered London society. 

Fedosia married Colonel J. V. De La Haye and, under the name of Ina De La Haye worked as an actress, appearing on the stage and in numerous films and television roles from the late 1940s until the early 1970s. She died in 1972 in Ticehurst, England. Ina De La Haye 

The Honourable John Maler Collier (27 January 1850 – 11 April 1934) was a leading English artist, and an author. He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. Both his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry Huxley. He studied painting at the Munich Academy where he enrolled on 14 April 1875 (Register: 3145) at the age of 25. More on John Maler Collier

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