EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GIRL (PAINTED AT PORLOCK).

Image: Pearson’s Magazine, March 1923.

  • Title(s): Equestrian portrait of a young girl (painted at Porlock) (this web site); Equestrian portrait of a young girl (Pearson’s magazine, March 1923).
  • Description: a young girl with side plats seated on a white pony in a rural setting, their bodies facing slightly away from the viewer, the girl’s head and eyes turned towards and looking at the viewer. (Only known from black-and-white photo in Pearson’s magazine, March 1923.)
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  • History:
    • 1923 – llustrated in Pearson’s Magazine, March 1923, p194, “EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GIRL. / From the painting by Mrs. A. L. Swynnerton, A.R.A. / Few living artists can equal Mrs. Swynnerton as a painter of children and ponies. This happy and very natural picture was painted at Porlock during the years of the artist’s struggle for recognition by the Royal Academy.”
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This may be the work ‘Mary’, listed in the 1923 exhibition catalogue, which is stated to have been “Painted at Porlock” and “Lent by George Spiegelberg, Esq.”, a merchant in Manchester and brother of the famous German Egyptologist Wilhelm Spiegelberg (1870-1930).

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