![Arthur Hacker - Christabel Cockerell, Lady Frampton [1900]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7641/16861484351_5d7a58626e_o.jpg)
The sitter for this elegant portrait was Christabel Annie Cockerell (1863-1951), cousin of the architect Sir Sydney Cockerell and wife of Hacker's good friend Sir George Frampton the sculptor, who is perhaps best known for his bronze of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Christabel was also an artist and exhibited landscapes and studies of childhood until around 1910 when she appears to have ceased to exhibit. George and Christabel had met when they were both students at the Royal Academy Schools in 1882 and they were married in 1893, a year before the birth of their only child George Vernon Meredith.
[Sotheby’s, London - Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 71 cm]