ELIZABETH WILLIAM PORTRAITS – PORTRAIT OF ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON.

Photos: Jonathan Russell.

  • Media: oil on canvas.
  • Dimensions: 34.9 x 30.9 cm.
  • History:
    • 1906 – Signed and dated 1906
    • 2001 – Auctioned 25 Oct, W. H. Lane & Son, Penzance, “Portrait of a young blonde Girl / “Signed dated,” passed.
    • 2008 – Auctioned Mallham’s, Cheltenham, 21 Aug 2008, “ANNIE LOUISE SWYNNERTON … Portrait of a young girl with blonde hair wearing a polo neck jumper, signed and dated ‘Annie L Swynnerton 1906’ bas gauche [bottom left], oil on canvas, 13¼” x 11¾ [337 x 298 mm],” sold.
    • ?-May 2012 – With vendor Joanna Cole Fine Art.
    • Owned by art historian and author, Susan Thompson (The Life and Works of Annie Louisa Swynnerton).
    • 2011 – ‘Presented [to the Tate] by Chris Thomson, in memory of Susan Thomson, 2013‘.
    • 2022 – Tate Britain, November 2022, “Spotlights: Annie Swynnerton” exhibition.
  • Location: Tate.

“Elizabeth Williamson was the great-granddaughter of Mrs. Charles Hunter, owner of the Villa Barbaro in Venice, friend of Henry James and Edith Wharton. Mrs. Hunter was a collector and philanthropist of the arts, and an intimate friend of Sargent who painted her. It was Sargent who introduced Mrs. Hunter to Mancini, and she commissioned him the portrait of her nephew Elisabeth. Elizabeth’s mother, Phyllis, was painted by Sargent in 1902. The painting is now kept at Tate” (www.deartibus.it [dead link, copy at archive.org).

Older images from auction websites show a different frame.

Image: Invaluable.

Page last updated 23 Apr 2025.