Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
4th, 5th & 6th July 2025
Lot 417
Estimate: £100/150
Jocelyn Galsworthy. Artist. Kevin Peter Pietersen MBE. Nottinghamshire, Hampshire, Surrey & England 2001-2015. Large and impressive original pastel and pencil portrait of Kevin Pietersen, head and shoulders, wearing cricket shirt and sweater with England emblem to chest. Drawn from life by Galsworthy in 2005, when England finally regained the Ashes, it is signed and dated by the artist and by the sitter, Pietersen. Attractively framed and glazed in heavy wooden frame. The overall measurements are 26.5”x34.5”. Label to back refers to the painting being exhibited in the Royal Society Portrait Painters Exhibition held in 2007 at the Mall Galleries, London. Also ‘Green & Stone of Chelsea’ label to back of frame. An excellent image and likeness to Pietersen, reflecting his wild style. Very good condition
Jocelyn Galsworthy has been painting professionally for more than fifty years and is particularly well known for her portraiture and her highly acclaimed paintings of English and International cricket scenes. Great niece of the distinguished novelist and playwright, John Galsworthy OM, Jocelyn began her training at Winchester School of Art and attended the City and Guilds School of Art in Kennington, London. Further studies continued at teaching studios in Paris, Munich and Granada. Jocelyn held her first exhibition at the Guildhall, Winchester in April 1964