PORTRAIT OF VIOLET EDITH FENWICK (ON THE TERRACE).

Image: unidentified source.

Violet (1874-1972) was the wife of George Fenwick (1870-1937), the marriage lasting from 1901 to 1917. The terrace depicted is assumed to be at Temple Dinsley, the old manor house which the couple bought in 1908 and had enlarged.

The Athenæum, 15 May 1909: on exhibition at the Royal Academy, “the best picture [Annie Swynnerton] has yet shown … displaying considerable powers of decorative invention.“

Violet and George Fenwick had four children, Charles (born 1897, who died in a fishing accident in Norway, 1909), David (1910-1982), Jonathan (1911-1999), and Rachel (1913-2006). Temple Dinsley was sold after the couple divorced and is now a private school.

• Media: oil on canvas.
• Dimensions: canvas c. 1980 x 1150 (2.27 m²), framed 2260 x 1450.
• History: signed and dated 1909; exhibited Royal Academy 1909; presented to Johanneberg Art Gallery as part of the founding collection by Lady Phillips, c. 1913.

PORTRAIT OF CHARLES FENWICK.

Image: www.medici.co.uk.

• Media: oil on canvas (assumed).
• Dimensions: ?
• History: exhibited Royal Academy, 1908 (The Standard, 4 May 1908); image known only from commercial artwork reproduction web sites.
• Location: unknown.

PORTRAIT OF DAVID AND JONATHAN FENWICK.

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• Media: oil on canvas (assumed).
• Dimensions: ?
• History: “in the garden at Temple Dinsley“; signed and dated 1914; exhibited Manchester, 1923 (visible in exhibition photographs); otherwise known only from images on commercial artwork reproduction web sites.
• Location: unknown.