Featured Help with inscription please

I bought this beautiful pastel portrait by Charlotte Blakeney Ward at auction.

I have had to remove it from the frame as the glass was broken.

On the back board to the frame is a pencil inscription “Jennifer daughter of the Hon Mr & Mrs John B……

followed by the artist’s signature and what is probably her address.

Charlotte was a well known society artist but I just can’t get the surname of the hon Mr and Mrs John

There was a storage label on the frame marked LADY BETHEY

Any ideas?

 

My eyes might be influenced by the "Lady Bethy" info, but I read 'John Bethy'

 

Beathy is a very uncommon surname. Are you sure about the "Lady Beathy"? Would/could you post a photograph of the storage label?

Debora

 

Here it is. It reads Morris Removals Storages Bagshot and Chertsey

 

So, the family was likely based in Surrey.

Debora

 

Yes that’s where I’m searching .

 

isnt this the same girl ?

https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Charlotte-Blakeney-Ward/A45F98B7FB72846A/Artworks

 

https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Portrait-of-Jennifer-Jane-Parker/AC7C6EF9B4BBE818

 

Looks like a sibling. She's identified as Jennifer Jane Parker but the dates can't be right. 1857-1918. This portrait is post-World War I.

Debora

 

both called jennifer though

 

And the Venesta sticker refers to the wood backing?

Debora

 

Nice piece John,she's fairly well known & did some beautiful work.She did a portrait of the well known poet Robinson Jeffers (can't find) & suffragette Mary Collins & William Finlay (2nd Viscount,Middle Temple Bencher).

 

Yes I saw this painting and thought that she must be a sibling but the name and dates can't be right.

 

"The Honorable Mr. & Mrs." is an odd honorific.

Debora

 

I had another try at the illegible part

 

definitely the same girl, painted around the same time, but think theres been a mix up somewhere along the way

 

I tried to bust thru the paywall at Mutual Art-sorry,but no luck !

 

She certainly looks like the same girl. A bit odd though to have two portraits done at the same age-ish. (I could see once as child, once when out in society or young married.

Debora

 

I think it is the same little girl?



Update: oops, late to the party……

 

I thought the same thing earlier, but doesn't one have blue eyes and the other brown?