EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF LADY MERCY MARTER

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Lady Mercy Marter (aged 15 or 16), daughter of society beauty, socialist and social reformer Frances Evelyn Greville, 5th Countess of Warwick.

• Medium: oil on canvas.
• Dimensions: 1.58 x 2.36 m (3.7 m²).
• History: dated 1920; exhibited 1923, Manchester Art Gallery; 1934, Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery; auctioned Christie’s 9 Nov 1968;  auctioned Christie’s, estate of Peter Langan (restaurateur and patron of the arts), 18 Dec 2012, est. £5,000-£7,000, sold £10,625, “Lady Mercy Marter (née Greville) (1904-1968) was the daughter of society beauty and socialist Frances Evelyn Greville, 5th Countess of Warwick. She was formerly wife of Basil Dean and Patrick Gamble and wife of Richard Marter.“
• Location: unknown.

SKETCH FOR EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF LADY MERCY MARTER

Image: Susan Thomson (1918) The Life and Works of Annie Louisa Swynnerton. Warrington: Manchester Art Press.

• Medium: ‘drawing’ (drawing medium not specified).
• Dimensions: ?
• History: Tate Britain; reproduced in Susan Thomson (2018) The Life and Works of Annie Louisa Swynnerton. Warrington: Manchester Art Press.
• Location: Tate Britain.