C.J. Durham (British, fl. 1859-1880)


The wreckers signed 'C.J.Durham' (lower left)oil on canvas 101.6 x 121.9cm (40 x 48in).
|Depicted here are brother and sister George Watters Greene and Alice Norah Gertrude Greene. Alice would become one of the top female British tennis stars of the early 1900s, winning a silver medal in the 1908 London summer Olympics. Her other achievements include twice reaching the semi-finals of Wimbledon, winning the London Covered Courts Championships at the Queen's Club in 1907 and playing international field hockey. George served as a Major R.A.M.C. during the First World War before, similarly to his sister, settling in Jersey where they would both live throughout the German occupation of the Channel Islands during the Second World War. ProvenanceThe sitters' family, thence by descent.