ALL THE WORKS OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY ARTIST FOR WHICH IMAGES CAN BE FOUND
Sincere thanks to Robyn Louey at the Art Gallery of New South Wales for sending scans of a catalogue (possibly the only copy in existence) of an exhibition of Annie's works at the Alpine Club in 1956. See the EXHIBITIONS page for details. As well as details of pictures unknown before, this has also added …
Continue reading Alpine Club Exhibition, 1956 – new works and web site revisions
RATHER SURPRISED THIS HASN'T POPPED UP BEFORE with all the web searches I've done - a portrait of Alice Woods (1911), on the Brentford and Chiswick Local History Society web site. According to the web page, it was believed destroyed when the Maria Grey Training College (closed 1976 and site redeveloped) where it hung was …
Continue reading Two more ‘new’ Swynnertons – ArtUK.org essay – web site updates.
Web pages on Annie not infrequently claim that this painting, 'The Glow Worm', is by her. The late Susan Thomson's The Life and Works of Annie Louisa Swynnerton (an excellent book which I really recommend) includes the work, identifying the image source as the 'Kelly Gallery', but without further detailing the reference. The painting has …
In The Life and Works of Annie Louisa Swynnerton by Susan Thomson (Warrington, Manchester Art Press, 2018, p39), there is a sketch reproduced - a preparatory drawing for the Equestrian portrait of Lady Mercy Marter. The original is held at the Tate Britain, London. I've included the sketch on the web page for that portrait. …
ON THE 'POSTHUMOUS STUDIO SALE OF 1934' page I'd written that Annie's Cupid and Psyche, now in Oldham Art Gallery, was one of the lots sold off. It was not. The one in the 1934 sale, lot 57, was a larger and now lost work. The Oldham version was acquired by the gallery in 1892. …
Continue reading Corrections to the 1934 catalogue. Mater Triumphalis.
A page has been created on this website for the newly discovered painting, 'Landscape with figures.' It has been given than name, rather than 'Landscape with two figures,' as can't be certain that the marks close to the recognizable figures aren't intended to be other (unfinished?) figures. Jonathan Russell.
Someone kindly emailed to say they had a painting possibly by "Annie Swynnerton" (her name being written on the back of the frame) and asked for an opinion on the attribution. With a bit of study, it seemed to resemble one of the obscurer images in one of the 1923 exhibition photographs, specifically painting 'N' …
Continue reading A newly discovered work – “Landscape with two figures.”
