Derek Hill
Rica, a Sleeping Dachshund
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March 24, 08:41 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
Lot Details
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Derek Hill
1916 - 2000
Rica, a Sleeping Dachshund
signed with initials lower right; inscribed on the reverse: Rica/ at Strathcarron/ New Kelso/ Sept 9/94
oil on cigar box lid
16 x 23.5 cm.
Derek Hill was a family friend and the present work was a gift from the artist to Lady Mountbatten.
The subject, Rica, her dachshund, was named after 'Ric-a-Dam Doo' the regimental colours of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry: The Countess was their Colonel-in-Chief from 1974 to 2007.
New Kelso is an estate just outside Strathcarron in Wester Ross (so called because its first owner Nicholas Jefferies originally came from Kelso in the Borders). The Mountbattens took holidays at the fishing lodge there.