A ROSE FROM MY GARDEN.

Images: donated by owner.

  • Title(s): A Rose from my Garden (see entry for 1930 below).
  • Description: Oil sketch of the head and shoulders of a young, red-haired girl, shoulders sideways on, facing to the viewer’s left, head turned three-quarters towards the viewer.
  • Media: Oil on canvas (canvas visible in Royal Academy Illustrated image) (Clevedon Salerooms, 19 Nov).
  • Dimensions: 49 x 39 cm (Clevedon Salerooms, 19 Nov).
  • Signature/date/other text: Signed and dated on back, “Annie L. Swynnerton 1930” (photo sent by owner).
  • History:
    • 1930 – Dated “Annie L Swynnerton, / 1930” on the back (photo sent by owner), but the owner, an experienced collector with other experience of Annie’s work, commented “I think the stretcher and canvas on my painting pre-date 1930 by some twenty years or so. I also think the vigorous brushwork suggests a hand of less than 85 years … it may have had a little re-working in 1930 but I think it is about 1910 in date” (private communication). However, as show in Royal Academy Illustrated for this year, 1930 may well be correct.
    • 1930 – Exhibited Royal Academy, no. 538; Illustrated in Royal Academy Illustrated for that year (which identifies this work by image and title; private communication).
    • 2015 – Auctioned Clevedon Salerooms Ltd, Cleveden, United Kingdom, 19 Nov, lot 176, “Sketch in oil on canvas – Study of a young girl, verso inscribed Anne L. Swynnerton 1930, 49cm x 39cm”, passed.
    • 2016 – Auctioned Clevedon Salerooms Ltd, Clevedon, United Kingdom, 7 Jan, lot 278, “Sketch in oils on canvas – Study of a young girl, verso inscribed Anne L.Swynnerton 1930, framed”, sold.
  • Location: private collection.

Above images kindly sent by owner, for which many thanks.

Page last updated 27 Sep 2025.