Painted in Nassau, Bahamas in 1917. American Art News, stated ‘A. Muller-Ury has had a busy winter painting portraits. Among his most recent works are a three-quarter length of Lady William Taylor, of Montreal, which he painted at Nassau.’ This is also confirmed by a postcard addressed to Adelina Gähler-Müller, the artist’s sister, written from the Bahamas on March 8, 1917 (in the editor’s possession).
Lady Jane Williams-Taylor c. 1930.
The sitter (1868-1950) was a friend of Queen Mary. Her husband was Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor (1863-1946), President of the Bank of Montreal, who had been knighted in 1910. Muller-Ury attended the wedding of her daughter Brenda Germaine (1921-1982) to Mr. Frank Duff Frazier (died 1933) at 686, Mountain Street in Montreal, Canada, in December, 1916 (they were divorced in 1925). The sitter’s grand-daughter was the famous American socialite Brenda Frazier (1921-1982) one of whose husbands was a distant relation Robert Chatfield-Taylor.
