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 …
Author: Jonathan Russell
NEW PHOTO OF ANNIE.
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 …
THE PORTRAIT OF SUSAN ISABEL DACRE AT AUCTION LAST MONTH IS A KNOWN IMAGE.
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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‘NEW’ WORK BY S. ISABEL DACRE – PORTRAIT OF MRS E. E. HOUGHTON.
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
NOTES ON ANNIE’S ‘THE VISIT’.
Have come across a description of The Visit in The Athenæum, 27 May 1882, p673: The Visit (704) of Miss A. L. Robinson, a pretty but somewhat Hals-like picture of two little girls dressed in black and grey seated on a blue sofa, before white and gold embroidery, may be classed with the 'Cara Nona' …
NEW WORK BY SUSAN ISABEL DACRE AT AUCTION – FACADE OF SAN FRANCESCO, 1902.
A previously unknown work by Susan Isabel Dacre is for sale by auction at Woolley & Wallace, Salisbury, UK, 4 Sep, titled Facade of San Francesco, being a study of the hilltop Basilica of St Francis, Assisi. This brings the total number of works by Isabel known by image on this web site to forty-three …
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IMAGE OF SUSAN ISABEL DACRE BY FRANCIS DODD.
A portrait of Susan Isabel Dacre by Francis Dodd RA (1874-1949) - an etching dated 1907 - was sold by auction at McTear's, Glasgow, on 24th July. Isabel would have been 62 or 63 years old. Not an image I recall having seen before and have not managed to turn it up with internet searches, …
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THE SENSE OF SIGHT AND MATER TRIUMPHALIS ON DISPLAY AT THE CLARK ART INSTITUTE, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.
The Sense of Sight and Mater Triumphalis are currently on loan to The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, for inclusion in their exhibition A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875-1945 (14 Jun - 14 Sep 2025). [See also this page (archive.org), on which The Sense of Sight is shown, and berkshirefinearts.com …
Thanks
A quick thanks to the people who assisted recently with site funding for a further two years (and again to the person who paid the domain registration for a further decade). Together, after JustGiving fees taken, you kind donations came to the due amount almost to the penny. Jonathan.
FREDERICK SWYNNERTON WATERCOLOUR SOLD AT AUCTION.
On the 11th June, a watercolour by Frederick Swynnerton, Annie's brother-in-law, was sold by auction at Wotton Auction Rooms, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire. His Mountain scene has a label in the back referring to a frame maker in Simla [modern Shimla], the city in the foothills of the Himalayas in central northern India where Frederick lived for …
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ANNIE LOUISA SWYNNERTON and SUSAN ISABEL DACRE (1844-1933) 