This large miniature portrait is unsigned on the front, but the backing paper is signed "Rose Ellis - Clifton Green, York".The miniature is quite large at 125 mm x 100 mm. The signature is probably for Rose Annie Ellis (Mar 1883-?) who is unrecorded as a miniature painter, but was obviously an accomplished artist.
It seems she is almost certainly the Rose Ellis aged 18, recorded in the 1901 census living at "The Limes, Clifton,York" with her parents; Fred and Elizabeth Ellis, where Fred Ellis was a horse dealer, apparently owning livery stables.
In 1901 he would still have been a busy man supplying horses to his clients, but must have had little inkling of how his world would turn upside down with the introduction of the motor car.
The sitter is unknown. 336
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