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Mary Edwell-Burke Portrait of Margaret Coen

50 x 37 cm

Image courtesy the sitter's estate

The subject of this portrait by Mary Edwell-Burke is artist Margaret Coen (1909–1993), who herself exhibited works in the 1940, 1941 and 1942 Archibald competitions – all portraits of her husband, Douglas Stewart.