Sir Oswald Birley, RA, ROI, British 1880-1952- Portrait sketch of a boy, bust-length; black and white pastels on blue-grey paper laid down on card, signed and dated ' Oswald Birley 1906.' (lower left), 58.4 x 45 cm. (unframed). ARR. Note: Works on paper by Birley do not oftene onto the market, and indeed neither do portraits of children by his hand. A favourite of the Royal Family, he was well known for his portraits of King George V, Queen Mary, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth II. He painted several highly regarded portraits of his friend Sir Winston Churchill (to whom he also gave lessons), and a life-size portrait of Mahatma Gandhi which was the first to be hung in the Lok Sabha shortly after Indian Independence on 28 August 1947. He was knighted in 1949.Please refer to department for condition report