An Original Hand Written And Signed Paper Slip By Artist And Friend Of Oscar Wilde Frank Miles Frank Miles Signed

An Original Hand Written and Signed Paper Slip by Artist and Friend of Oscar Wilde Frank Miles. Undated. Signature on a slip of paper, datelined Dresden April 1895. George Francis Miles 1852- 1891 was a London-based British artist who specialised in pastel portraits of society ladies, also an architect and a keen plantsman. He was the artist in chief of the magazine Life, and between 1877 and 1887 he contributed text and botanical illustrations to The Garden, a weekly journal published in London by William Robinson. Frank Miles is best known as a friend of Oscar Wilde whom he met at Oxford in 1874 or 1875, where Miles had family connections to the colleges and friends. He was never an undergraduate after being schooled at home, rather than at Eton as his father and uncles were. Miles introduced Wilde to Lillie Langtry, and to his friend and patron Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, who later became the model for the worldly Lord Henry Wotton in Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Size of Paper is 62mm x 18mm. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17737