DELIGHTED to learn that The Lady in White, auctioned at Christie's, London, in 2018, has been donated to the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia by the Campbell-Pretty family. Restoration has removed scratches and other marks previously visible in auction house images. Before restoration ... ... and after. Images: National Gallery of Victoria. Jonathan Russell

A PAGE WITH DETAILS has been created for the 'winged soldier comforting a boy' painting from The El Helou Collection Christie's auction, 1999. I've decided on the title Armoured Angel with Boy as more descriptive of the image. The boy appears to be garlanded, which suggest some nymph-like figure, although this would be a bit …

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Have obtained a copy of the 1999 Christie's catalogue for The El Helou Collection, and it has illustrated the two works by Annie which were in the auction, A Study of Hands, which is confirmed as the work already known to this site, and one with the title An allegorical scene - A winged soldier …

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I've been looking at 'attributions' - whether the evidence for works listed on this site being by Annie stands up to scrutiny. Reassuringly, 120 out of the 128 works for which there are images are well-evidenced, either clearly signed, having sound exhibition records, originating from collections in Annie's family or her artistic or suffrage friends, …

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Annie's Blue Seascape was sold by auction today at Mallams, Oxford. Image: Mallams. The total number of paintings by or attributed to Annie for which I have located images is now one-hundred-and-twenty-seven, although eleven of these are tiny black-and-white images blown up from photographs of the 1923 exhibition (plus two which are visibile through a …

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A previously unrecorded painting by Annie is for sale by auction at Mallams, Oxford, 26 May, titled 'Blue Seascape.' That Annie had painted seascapes is known from the posthumous studio sale catalogue of 1934, lot 101, "STUDIES OF FOLIAGE, SEASCAPES, ETC," but this is the only example known. Image: Mallams. A label on the back …

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Obtained a copy of the 1981 Sotheby's catalogue which includes Annie's 'Joan of Arc.' A beautiful, fully illustrated catalogue, all in colour. A few favourites are reproduced below. There is no additional information on Annie's work - I was hoping for information on provenance, but there is nothing other than the painting's size, that the …

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AN ITEM has appeared on Ebay, a note signed by Annie, dated 13 Oct 1913 ("13. X. 13."), with the words "with Mrs. Swynnerton's compliments" on the back, all written on a small piece of notepaper with some very attractive Arts and Crafts-style decoration around the edge. No provenance given. Not quite sure I'd want …

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A previously unknown work by Annie, Portrait of a woman holding a dove, sold today at John Nicholson's, Surrey. It is signed Annie L. Robinson / 187..., the exact year is difficult to read from the auction site images, but may be 1873. It is, therefore a very early work, painted around the time as …

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All rather quiet on the Swynnerton front, though occasional works by Annie or others in her circle will hopefully start turning up again in the spring. So, for now, another artist whose work I happen to like, Mable Alvarez. Mable Alvarez was born in 1891 on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, her family resettling in …

Continue reading Another diversion … Mable Alvarez (1891-1985).