The Music Party
Sussex Life|February 2018

Deposed dictators, accusations of espionage and divorce: there’s much more to this painting by Alfred Tidey than first meets the eye

Michael Escolme
The Music Party

THIS charming and unassuming watercolour painting could easily be dismissed as a the type of rather twee genre picture popular with the Victorian middle classes. Yet it hides an intriguing tale of friendship, international travel and deposed dictators. The key person in this painting is the dark-haired woman hiding at the rear. She is Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe who was known to her friends and family as Betsy. Betsy was the younger daughter of William Balcombe, superintendent of public sales for the East India Company.

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