I'll be revamping this website over the next couple of months. The layout will change and content appear and disappear at times. A purely amature endeavour begun just one year ago, I feel the site has become a bit clunky with all the bits I've added on. The Painting Light and Hope exhibition having now …
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‘Young girl in a white dress’ added.
A new work has come to light, 'Young girl in a white dress,' thanks to a kind contribution by a descendent of Annie's extended family - a small oil sketch which doesn't relate directly to any other work that I am aware of. Annie was recognised as an especially gifted painter of children in her …
Last week of Painting Light and Hope exhibition.
THE RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION OF ANNIE'S WORKS at Manchester Art Gallery is entering its final week. The closing day of the exhibition is Sunday 6 January, 2019. I can't image that such a diverse gathering together of her works could happen again. Manchester Art Gallery holds 17 of her paintings (not all normally on display) and …
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More biographical snippets. ‘The Lady in White’ sells for £12,500.
THREE NEW BIOGRAPHICAL SNIPPETS have been added: A mention of three painting sold by Annie in 1882 for the remarkable sum of £105 (£12000 in today's money). A notice in a suffrage journal of 1891 about the purchase of the portrait of Lydia Becker by Annie's friend, Susan Dacre, and plans for a memorial sculpture …
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Estelle ‘Sylvia’ Pankhurst page updated.
As an artist and a Pankhurst, Sylvia was presumably well acquainted with Annie, although stylistically they were very different. Her page on this site as part of Annie's circle has been updated with a few new images. There are very few to be found on the web. As with Annie, there must be unknown works …
‘A winged soldier’ and ‘A Study of Hands.’
AN INDEPENDENT ARTICLE from 1999 mentions that the author Anissa Helou once owned two Annie Swynnerton works, 'a winged soldier' and 'A Study of Hands.' 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 …
Annie and Zuccarelli.
IN THE POSTHUMOUS STUDIO SALE OF 1934, lots 159-160 are "Paintings by Guercino, Moroni and Zuccarelli," with no further information given. Just came across this mention in a Christie's auction of 7 October 1999: two paintings, oil on canvas, unframed and unstretched, "Tobias and the Angel" and "Sybils praying before a brazier" by "a follower …
