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Annie Louisa SwynnertonPortrait of Emma Woods - British Victorian art oil painting noted female artist1895
1895
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This stunning British Victorian portrait oil painting is by noted female artist Annie Louisa Swynnerton. The sitter is Emma Woods, nee King (1806-1896). Emma was the wife of Samuel Woods (1808-1891), Quaker merchant. She was also the daughter of Frederick Benjamin Lautenschlager who adopted the surname King (1781-1859), wholesale grocer, tea merchant and sugar refiner of London and his wife Emma Austin. The portrait was painted in 1895, the year before Emma died at the age of 90. It is a bust length portrait of Emma by a window, a landscape beyond. She is wearing a black dress, lace shawl and hat and has a broach at her neck. Swynnerton has very sympathetically captured the beauty of an older woman's face in wonderful detail. Illuminated from the window, the light really enhances her pale blue eyes - similar to other portraits such as Illusions, The Southing of the Sun and Sense of Sight. This is a superb British Victorian portrait by a fantastic female artist and an excellent example of Swynnerton's work.
Indistinctly signed lower left. Sitter's details, artist's name and dated 1895 verso.
Provenance. Nottingham estate.
Condition. Oil on canvas, 20 inches by 17 inches unframed, in good original condition.
Frame. Housed in a gilded oak period frame 29 inches by 25 inches and in good condition.
Annie Swynnerton (1844-1933). Swynnerton's obituary stated that 'vitality' was the word which best summed up her work. In her depictions of children, especially those painted in the open air, she could most easily express her 'youngness of heart, joy in life, and reckless abandonment to the appeal of light and colour.' Swynnerton was born in Kersal, near Manchester, one of seven daughters of Francis Robinson, a solicitor. From an early age she painted watercolours to supplement the family's reduced income, but began her serious training as an artist at Manchester School of Art, before leaving to enrol at the Académie Julian in Paris. Her work was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1879, and the following year she exhibited a portrait of her friend Isabel Dacre (Manchester City Art Gallery), with whom she later formed the Manchester Society of Women Painters. Swynnerton completed her studies by travelling for two years in Italy. During a stay in Rome she met the Manx sculptor Joseph Swynnerton, whom she married in 1883; until his death in 1910, they lived mainly in Rome. Whilst in Italy, Swynnerton painted works such as An Italian Mother and Child (Manchseter City Art Gallery) in a style clearly reminiscent of Renaissance painting, and panoramic landscapes such as The Olive Gatherers (Manchester City Art Gallery). In 1902, after a gap of sixteen years, Swynnerton exhibited again at the Royal Academy. Always greatly admired by other painters, her work was bought by prominent figures in the art world. In 1906 Sir George Clausen purchased New-Risen Hope, depicting the figure of a naked child, and later presented it to the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. John Singer Sargent bought The Oreads in 1907, a sculpturesque group of sea-nymphs, giving the painting to the Tate Gallery, London, in 1922. In addition to her allegorical paintings, Swynnerton exhibited many portraits at the Academy in the 1910s. In 1922, backed by Clausen and Sargent, Swynnerton was the first woman to be elected an Associate of the Royal Academy. The only previous women to rank as Academicians were Angelica Kauffman and Mary Moser, who were signatories to the Instrument of Foundation in 1768 and thus were made members without being elected. The year after her election there was an exhibition of her work at Manchester City Art Gallery and another version of New-Risen Hope was purchased for the Chantrey Bequest in 1924. In 1929 and 1930 two more works were purchased for the nation this way. Swynnerton's sight began to deteriorate towards the end of her life, but she continued to exhibit pictures at the Academy, although they were often works she had painted years earlier. She died at the age of eighty-eight at her home on Hayling Island, near Portsmouth.
- Creator:Annie Louisa Swynnerton (1844 - 1933, British)
- Creation Year:1895
- Dimensions:Height: 29 in (73.66 cm)Width: 25 in (63.5 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU853113403902
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