Image: Christie’s catalogue.

• Title(s): An armoured angel with a boy (this web site); Allegorical subject (Sotheby’s, 1979); Allegorical scene – A winged Soldier comforting a boy (Christie’s, 1999).
• Description: A winged woman with body armour and red skirt, lying on the ground by her a nude young male figure, face turned away, background of distant mountains.
• Media: ?
• Dimensions: “unframed / 60½ by 43¼ in; 153.5 by 110.5 cm” (Sotheby’s, 1979).
• Signature/date/other text: “Allegorical subject/by/Annie L. Swynnerton ARA/found in her studio in Rome/and sent to London in 1936” on the reverse.
• History:
  • 1936 – “found in her studio in Rome/and sent to London” (Christie’s, 1999).
  • 1979 Jul 3 – Auctioned Sotheby’s, London, lot 224.
  • 1999 May 19 – Auctioned Christie’s, South Kensington, The El Helou Collection.
• Location: ?

Formerly owned by chef and author Anissa Helou, who auctioned her collected works in 1999. Article in The Independent, 16 May 1999 (archive.org): The guest bedroom on the first landing is dominated by an Annie Louisa Swynnerton painting of a winged soldier (in the workroom upstairs is the more evocative Study of Hands by the same artist).

Image: Netherlands Institute for Art History.

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