λ† Frank Dobson (British 1886-1963)Elsie Queen Myers (Child's Head)Stamped 'Dobson Estate' and numbered AP 2/2 (to reverse of neck)BronzeHeight (including base): 29cm (11¼ in.)Conceived in 1921, this work was cast in 2012 in an edition Provenance:The Artist's EstateGillian Jason Gallery, LondonLiterature:Neville Jason & Lisa Thompson-Pharaoh, The Sculpture of Frank Dobson, Perry Green & London, p. 122, cat. no. 19 (illustration of the lifetime cast)The present work, along with the plaster of the same subject, wasmissioned by novelist Leo Myers. The two had met in 1920 and Myers invited Dobson to do portrait busts of both his daughters - Elsie and Evelyn and Dobson would go on toplete a bronze of Myers himself in 1927. E. Q. became a noted painter and textile designer and married Christopher 'Kit' Nicholson, the youngest son of artists William Nicholson and Mabel Pryde.