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Yates (Frederick, 1854-1919). Two pastel portraits of Violet Castleman Curry (1892-1979), 1915 * Yates (Frederick, 1854-1919). A pair of pastel portraits of Violet Castleman Curry (1892-1979), 1915, pastel on brown paper, two head and shoulder portraits of a young lady wearing a blue jacket over a white blouse, her light brown hair in a bob, both with some surface rubbing, the first inscribed by the artist lower right 'F.Y. [small flourish] V.C. April 1915', and with old newspaper cutting about an exhibition at Abbott Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, and a Rowley Frames label on backboard, the second signed and dated 'Oct. 1915' lower right, and with The Pastel Society exhibition label on backboard, each approximately 34 x 26 cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/4 ins), matching frames (approximately 39 x 31 cm) QTY: (2) NOTE: Provenance: Peter Curry (died 2005), great-great grandson of Admiral Richard Curry (1772-1855); his wife, Pamela Curry (died 2025); bequeathed to Peter Curry's cousin's daughter, the current owner. Violet Curry was the daughter of the Reverend William Dixon Blatchford Curry (1860-1938), and great granddaughter of Admiral Richard Curry who had a very long and distinguished career in the Royal Navy. Richard Curry captured a pirate flag whilst serving aboard the frigate HMS Phaeton in the Mediterranean in around 1789; it is one of only two authentic 18th century Jolly Rogers known to exist, and has been on display at the National Museum of the Royal Navy. Violet Curry founded St Hilda's School in Bushey, Hertfordshire, in 1918, and was the headmistress there until 1955.