ALL THE WORKS OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY ARTIST FOR WHICH IMAGES CAN BE FOUND
At Mallams, Cheltenham, two works by Annie's brother-in-law, Frederick Swynnerton, lots 92 and 93, are to be auctioned on 13 August. Frederick was one of five brothers, the others all being artists or artisans and including the sculptur Joseph, husband of Annie. A search of the web and auction sites brings up only a handful …
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In 1887, Susan had an exhibit titled 'Passion Flower' in the half-a-year-long Royal Jubilee Exhibition in Manchester. Annie was not represented. In 1896 Susan exhibited 'a small, very carefully executed Madonna,' at the New Gallery, London. In 1904 Susan exhibited at the John Baillie Gallery, London, a popular exhibition space in the early 1900s, alongside …
AN IMPROVED IMAGE for Annie's Oleander has been uploaded, scanned directly from the 2002 Sotheby's auction catalogue. Known only from two auction records in 1999 and 2002. A particulary fine work which hints at how many other otherwise unknown works must be 'out there.' This is dated 1883, completed several years before her 'symbolist' period …
Acquired an original copy of the Sotheby's 'Portrait of a Boy (surrounded by gold)' catalogue - The Collecting Eye of Seymour Stein sale held in New York, 11 Dec 2003. Seymour Stein founded Sire Records in 1966, at the age of 23, and writes in the catalogue introduction how he "came up with the idea …
Two new images uploaded to this site, works by Annie's friend, Susan Isabel Dacre: Portrait of a young girl and Forest Nymph. This brings the total number of works for which there are images of this once highly regarded artist to thirty-two (including one 'attributed').
Thanks to a comment kindly submitted by Lara Nicholls (Curator of Australian Painting and Sculpture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra), have learned that Thro' the Orchard was exhibited in Melbourne Public Library as part of The Grosvenor Gallery Intercolonial Exhibition in 1887. The catalogue title of this painting varies from source to source, Thro' the …
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PAGES HAVE BEEN CREATED for the four new images kindly provided by Grant Waters: A Breath of Spring My Lady Barbara The Reverie The Passing of Rain TWO PAINTINGS by Annie's life-long friend, Susan Isabel Dacre, have been readvertised on Ebay by Richard Taylor Fine Art: Siena - but incorrectly titled 'Sienna' on the web …
Thanks again to Grant Waters for unearthing more otherwise unknown images of Annie's works from his collection of Royal Academy catalogues. The names of the paintings, with year exhibited, are A Breath of Spring (1926), My Lady Barbara (1925), The Reverie (1925) and The Passing of Rain (1928). The images are black-and-white, but I've had …
A COUPLE MORE REFERENCES to exhibitions devoted entirely to Annie's friend, Susan Isabel Dacre, or which included her as one of small select group. November 1898 - Exhibition at 10 South King Street, Manchester, by Susan Isabel Dacre, F. Monkhouse and F. Sugars. December 1901 - Grundy and Smith's, Manchester, an exhibition of fifteen landscapes …
CAME ACROSS a photo in The Times, 25 Nov 1922, showing Annie standing by Joan of Arc, but the image has differences to the version known today, most noticeably the arched corners of the picture. It is either another version or Annie reworked parts of the canvas after the photo was taken. The Southing of …
