Image: Angus and Rosemary’s Miscellany
of Malvern.

Image: detail from a gallery curatoral file (the whole image is not reproduced here because of possible copyright issues, and in any case details of the face are obscured by overprinted text).

Truth, 26 Apr 1900: “[At the New Gallery] “Thou Unrelenting Past” (No. 37) Mrs. A. L. Swynnerton gives another of those morbidly elaborate studies of old age which are now only too frequently seen in our picture shows.“

From American Art News, vol. 17, no. 21 (1 March 1919): “a portrait study of an old peasant woman by Annia Swynnerton, the technique delightful, the color warm and rich and the human appeal irresistible.”

In The Evening News, 24 October 1933, the title is given as “The Unrelenting Path.”

• Media: oil on canvas.
• Dimensions: 615 x 742 mm (0.46 m²).
• History: Signed and dated, “Annie L. Swynnerton, Roma, 1900“; 1909 exhibited Royal Academy of Arts, “Exhibition of modern works in painting and sculpture: forming the collection of the late George McCulloch“; auctioned Christie’s, 1913, purchased by the National Gallery of Canada 1913*; Jan-Feb 1919, on loan to The Art Museum of Toronto, Grange Park, “Contemporary British Painter widely known and acknowledged as one of the most individual and interesting artists of the present day.”
• Location: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

* In 1913 Eric Brown, Director of the National Gallery of Canada, on a visit to London chose this picture for display at the gallery along with a number of others and it was then accepted into the permanent collection;

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