All the works of this artist for which images can be found (and also those of her friend, Susan Isabel Dacre).
Thank to J_ W_ for emailing, querying whether the items in the bowl by the feet of the subject in Mater Triumphalis were pomegranate seeds. I had assumed, for no reason other than the subject appeared to be standing on a sea shore, that the items in the bowl were shells, although I could think …
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Unattributed image reproduced various locations on the web, c. 1932. I am gradually going through all the source material I hold to (1) create a reasonable catalogue raisonné, and (2) make sure the material presented on this web site is referenced as well as possible. Have just reviewed some newspaper articles from the early 1930s. …
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A previously unrecorded and early work by Susan Isabel Dacre, dated 1875, is for sale by auction at Von Zengen Kunstauktionen, Bonn, Germany, 22 November 2025. It is titled "Portrait einer Frau mit Ohrringen" or 'Portrait of a Woman with Earrings'. For this web site I'm using the title 'Portrait of an Italian woman', on …
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The owner of Portrait of a child wearing a sash has kindly provided further images and details, but it has to remain an 'attributed' work with no identifiable signature or sound provenance. The general style looks late 1800s. How one would love to know something of the subject and their history. Had a go at …
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Have long wondered where that building in the background in Italian Mother and Child was, also shown in the attributed work Woman with an infant and young girl - only knowing that it was somewhere in the vicinity of the Basilica of Saint Lawrence Outside the Walls, by the Campo Verano cemetery, Rome. Finally located …
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Surprised I haven't got round to doing this before, but there are six images of otherwise unknown works in photographs of the 1923 exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery, Paintings by Mrs. Swynnerton, A.R.A. They are: A Swell on the Water. Christmas Eve, Siena. Portrait of John Lambton. The Cumean Sibyl, Guarding the Secret of the …
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Received an email (for which many thanks) from someone who owns a work which was originally owned by a Miss Edith F. Prestige of Blackheath, London, who died 1965, and which the executor of her estate termed "an unfinished head of a child by Annie Swinnerton [spelled with 'I' not 'Y']" (correspondence of 1967). The …
In Elsie M. Lang's book British Women in the Twentieth Century (London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd.), published in 1929, there is a photo of Annie. Hard to estimate her age - forties? - just not the 85-years she would have been when the book was published. Couldn't resist adding some colour and I think it …
I did wonder if the portrait of Isabel by Frances Dodd sold at auction last month was an unknown work. Not so. I have come across a copy of it in The Print Collector’s Quarterly, Oct 1926, vol. 13, no. 3, p243, titled 'Lady Seated', and with that information quickly located two copies at the …
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Discovered this in a copy of The Queen, 3 Nov 1894. This brings the total number of works of S. Isabel Dacre known by image to forty-four. Full page here. Jonathan Russell
ANNIE LOUISA SWYNNERTON (1844-1933) 