FIGURATIVE WORKS.

Note that many works fall into multiple catagories. Some ‘figurative’ works would be ‘named portraits’, but the identity of the sitter is lost, others are as much landscape studies, but are classed ‘figurative’ because that is the focus point of the piece. Some nominally figurative or scenic works have symbolist elements in them.

1922 PHOTOGRAPH.

  • Title(s): ‘1922 photograph‘ on this web site.
  • Description: only known image a poor-quality black-and-white photograph in The Sphere newspaper, 9 Dec 1922, p261; Equestrian work with one or two equines with trees in the background and at least one figure which could be a mounted boy.
  • Media: unknown, presumed oil on canvas.
  • Dimensions: very approximately 1.5 x 1.5 m.
  • Signature: ?
  • History:
    • 1922 Dec 9 – visible in photograph in The Sphere (newspaper), 9 Dec, p261.
  • Location: ?

A BREATH OF SPRING.

  • Title(s): A Breath of Spring (Royal Academy catalogue and Royal Academy Illustrated for that year).
  • Description: The upper body of a young girl with short hair, left hand on her hip and looking to the right of the viewer. A roughly-finished work.
  • Media: ?
  • Dimensions: ?
  • Date/signature/other text: nothing visible in only known image.
  • History:
  • Location: ?

A CHILD WITH RED HAIR.

  • Title(s): A child with red hair (this web site) / Un putto (Sotheby’s 1994).
  • Description: upper body of an unclothed ?male child with thick curled red hair, turned to it’s left, left arm raised.
  • Media: oil on canvas on board.
  • Dimensions: 44.25 x 33 cm (average). “44.5 x 33 cm”, Sotheby’s 1994; “40 x 33 cm (unframed)”, David Duggleby 2018.
  • Date/signature/other text: none visible in available images.
  • History:
    • Provenance: by family decent from the collection of Francis Bate (1853-1950) a founder member treasurer and secretary of the New English Art Club
    • 1994 Sep 28- Auctioned Sotheby’s, London, United Kingdom, lo7 33, “Un putto / Illustrated on page 18 of the catalog”, passed.
    • 2018 Sep 14 – Auctioned David Duggleby, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom, lot 44, “Half length Portrait of a Child with Red Hair / oil on canvas laid on board unsigned 40cm x 33cm (unframed)”, sold: hammer £1,400.
  • Location: ?

A FLORENTINE MADONNA / FLORENTINE MOTHER AND CHILD.

  • Title(s): Florentine Mother and Child (Grosvenor gallery catalogue 1882); A Florentine Madonna (Sotheby’s 1980).
  • Description: Upper torso of a woman, three-quarter turned towards viewer, holding a very young child, dressed; the woman is wearing a wedding ring and an elaborate pendant earring. There are buildings in the background.
  • Media: unspecified.
  • Dimensions: 85 x 60 cm (Sotheby’s, 1980).
  • Signature/date/other text: “signed Annie L. Robinson, inscribed Florence and dated 1881” (Sotheby’s 1980).
  • History:
    • 1881 – Signed and dated 1881.
    • 1882 – Exhibited Grosvenor Gallery, London, no. 222, “Florentine Mother and Child … Miss A. L. Robinson” (Grosvenor Gallery catalogue, 1882).
    • 1905 – “Provenance: Charles J. Galloway, Knutsford, Cheshire,1905” (Sotheby’s 1980).
    • 1980 Nov 19 – Auctioned Sotheby’s, London, “signed Annie L. Robinson, inscribed Florence and dated 1881 / 33½ in. by 23½ in. 85 cm. by 60 cm. / Exhibition: Grosvenor Gallery, 1882” (Sotheby’s auction catalogue).
  • Location: unknown.

APRIL’S LADY.

  • Title(s): April’s Lady
  • Description: oil sketch of a lady leaning forwards amongst blossom.
  • Media: oil on canvas (Lorfords Antiques).
  • Dimensions: “H: 56 cm (22 1/16″) / W: 46 cm (18 1/8″)” (Lorfords Antiques).
  • Signature/date/other text: none on front of canvas (unless behind frame).
  • History:
    • [1900 – Exhibited Woman’s Exhibition, Earl’s Court, London, no. 1443, “April Lady”, valued at £36 15s 0d (about £4,500 at 2021 value). May be the same work as the 1933 and 2021 pieces, or a different “April/April’s Lady”]
    • 1933 – Exhibited Royal Academy, no. 494; shown in Royal Academy Illustrated for that year.
    • 2021 Aug 18 – Auctioned Lorfords Antiques, “Cleaned and relined oil sketch, in its original heavy gilded oak frame. Attributed to Annie Louisa Swynnerton (see label on reverse)”, sold: premium £2,850.
  • Location: ?

A ROSE FROM MY GARDEN.

  • Title(s): A Rose from my Garden (see entry for 1930 below).
  • Description: oil sketch of the head and shoulders of a young, red-haired girl, shoulders sideways on, facing to the viewer’s left, head turned three-quarters towards the viewer.
  • Media: oil on canvas (canvas visible in Royal Academy Illustrated image) (Clevedon Salerooms, 19 Nov).
  • Dimensions: 49 x 39 cm (Clevedon Salerooms, 19 Nov).
  • Signature/date/other text: signed and dated on back, “Annie L. Swynnerton 1930” (photo sent by owner).
  • History:
    • 1930 – dated “Annie L Swynnerton, / 1930” on the back (photo sent by owner), but the owner, an experienced collector with other experience of Annie’s work, commented “I think the stretcher and canvas on my painting pre-date 1930 by some twenty years or so. I also think the vigorous brushwork suggests a hand of less than 85 years … it may have had a little re-working in 1930 but I think it is about 1910 in date” (private communication). However, as show in Royal Academy Illustrated for this year, 1930 may well be correct.
    • 1930 – Exhibited Royal Academy, no. 538; Illustrated in Royal Academy Illustrated for that year (which identifies this work by image and title; private communication).
    • 2015 – Auctioned Clevedon Salerooms Ltd, Cleveden, United Kingdom, 19 Nov, lot 176, “Sketch in oil on canvas – Study of a young girl, verso inscribed Anne L. Swynnerton 1930, 49cm x 39cm”, passed.
    • 2016 – Auctioned Clevedon Salerooms Ltd, Clevedon, United Kingdom, 7 Jan, lot 278, “Sketch in oils on canvas – Study of a young girl, verso inscribed Anne L.Swynnerton 1930, framed”, sold.
  • Location: private collection.

A THIRSTY CHILD.

  • Title(s): A Thirsty Child (Sotheby’s, 1991).
  • Description: a woman with a very young child who is drinking from a large dish she is holding.
  • Media: oil on canvas (Sotheby’s, 1991).
  • Dimensions: 43 x 29 in / 109 x 74 cm (Sotheby’s, 1991).
  • Signature/date/other text: “signed [Annie Louisa Robinson] and dated 1876, inscribed with artist’s address on old label on reverse ” (Sotheby’s, 1991); “signed verso” (www.artory.com [web page gone]).
  • History:
    • 1876 – dated on canvas (Sotheby’s, 1991).
    • 1991 May 14 – auctioned Sotheby’s, Billinghurst, lot 246, sold: hammer £745 (ArtPrice).
  • Location: ?

A WOMAN AMONGST FOLIAGE [ATTRIBUTED].

  • Title(s): A woman amongst foliage (this web site); An Impressionist oil on canvas of a disfigured nude woman floating in a lake surrounded by foliage in shades of green and yellow (Bentley’s, 2004).
  • Description: only known from a poor quality image, a nude torso which appears to be leaning back and to the viewer’s left, “floating on a lake” according to the auction record, with a green/yellow background.
  • Media: oil on canvas (www.invaluable.com).
  • Dimensions: 20.25 x 21. 25 inches (51.5 x 54 cm) (www.invaluable.com).
  • Signature/date/other text: ?
  • History:
  • Location: ?

A WOMAN WITH A LAMB.

  • Title(s): A woman with a lamb (this web site); Girl with a lamb (Brighton Museums).
  • Description: oil sketch showing a lamb being held in the arms of a woman, of which only the head and uppermost body are depicted, background visually abstract blue, black and pale paintwork.
  • Media: oil on canvas (Brighton Museums).
  • Dimensions: “Support: 665 mm x 560 mm” (Brighton Museums).
  • Signature/date/other text: none apparent.
  • History:
  • Location: Brighton & Hove Museums.

BLOSSOM TIME.

  • Title(s): Blossom Time (Sotheby’s catalogue, 1991).
  • Description: portrait of two children amongst flowering foliage.
  • Media: oil on canvas (Sothey’s catalogue, 1991).
  • Dimensions: “61 by 51 cm., 24 by 20in” (Sothey’s catalogue, 1991).
  • Signature/date/other text: “signed, dated” (Sothey’s catalogue, 1991).
  • History:
    • 1888 – signed and dated (Sothey’s catalogue, 1991).
    • 1991 – auctioned Sotheby’s, London, 6 Nov, lot 145, sold: premium £2,660 (source: note in catalogue, unclear whether included VAT).
  • Location: ?

CROSSING THE STREAM.

  • Title(s): Crossing the Stream (unfinished) (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Description: “Unfinished scene of two young girls crossing a woodland stream. The fair haired girl to the right wears a pale dress, with her hands raised and one bare foot outstretched, a dark haired girl pulls a dark shawl across her shoulders. Stream to the left runs off into the background, lined on either side with trees. The characters look directly at the viewer, playfully balancing on rocks as they cross the stream” (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Media: oil on canvas (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Dimensions: “framed: 13.6 cm (depth); 149.8 cm (height); 99 cm (width). unframed: 126.2 cm (height); 74 cm (width)” (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Signature/date/other text: none on front of canvas.
  • History:
  • Location: Manchester Art Gallery.

DANAË / DANAE.

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

  • 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.)
  • Media: ?
  • Dimensions: ?
  • Signature/date/other text: ?
  • 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.”
  • Location: ?

GIPSY GIRL.

  • Title(s): Gipsy Girl (Royal Academy catalogue, 1934; The TImes, 5 May 1934)
  • Description: only poor quality black-and-white image known, a young girl, waist up and wearing dark clothes, looking directly at the viewer with her arms partly raised, standing in a rural lane.
  • Media: ?
  • Dimensions: 30 x 31 in (Christie’s, 1980).
  • Signature/date/other text: ?
  • History:
    • Date? – Art Exhibitions Bureau – A Painter’s Choice. (Source: Christie’s, 1980.) [One of three works by Annie known to have been in the undated “A Painter’s Choice” exhibition, the others being Study of hands and Blue Seascape.]
    • 1934 – Exhibited Royal Academy, no.721, illustrated in The Times, 5 May 1934, p16 (catalogue).
    • Date? – Johannesberg, British Council Exhibition. (Source: Christie’s, 1980.)
    • 1953 – Exhibited Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, Famous British Women Artists. (Source: Christie’s, 1980.)
    • 1956-1957 – Exhibited The Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, no. 478 ,illustrated in catalogue. (Source: Christie’s, 1980.)
    • 1980 – Auctioned Christies, lot 191, £3,000.
  • Location: ?

GREEN APPLE HARVEST.

  • Title(s): Green Apple Harvest (Phillip’s auction catalogue).
  • Description: a girl or young woman in a white blouse and dark skirt standing by an apple tree, holding an apple to her mouth with her left hand.
  • Media: “on board” (Phillip’s auction catalogue).
  • Dimensions: “12in. x 8 in. / 31cm. x 20cm.” (Phillip’s auction catalogue).
  • Signature/date/other text: “inscribed with original title and dated 1878 verso” (Phillip’s auction catalogue).
  • History:
    • 1878 – “inscribed with original title and dated 1878 verso” (Phillip’s auction catalogue).
    • 1988 – Auctioned Phillips, London, 12 Jul, lot 156, hammer £1,100 (Phillip’s auction catalogue).
  • Location: ?

ITALIAN MOTHER AND CHILD.

  • Title(s): Italian Mother and Child (plaque on frame).
  • Description: A scene depicting a young Italian mother in simple peasant dress, sitting in an ivy covered archway with a small child standing on her lap. The woman, sitting on the left, wears a white headdress with a white blouse and skirt, a dark garment covering part of her lap. The child is dressed in a blue dress with a white undergarment and a gold medallion necklace around her neck. The mother supports her child with her left hand, holding the child’s right hand with her right. In the background there is a Romanesque church with mosaics of saints between the windows, and roundels with blue decoration along the top of the building. A tiled roof slopes down from the building on the right with trees behind. (Manchester Art Gallery). There is a lizard on the wall just above the woman’s right shoulder. The paint application by the woman’s knee is a discordant at knee-level as if the area was being reworked and left unfinished.] The figures
  • Media: oil on canvas (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Dimensions: “framed: 13.6 cm (depth); 150 cm (height); 98 cm (width). / unframed: 125.8 cm (height); 73.5 cm (width).” (Manchester Art Gallery.)
  • Signature/date/other text: “Signed brc: Annie L. Robinson / Roma 1886” (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • History:
    • 1886 – Signed and dated.
    • 1936 – Bequeathed to Manchester Art Gallery by Mrs Louisa Mary Garrett. [Note by painting at 2018-2019 exhibition stated “Gift of Thomas Gough 1928.5”.]
    • May 1938 – Exhibited Manchester Art Gallery, ‘Manchester in Nineteenth Century Pictures and Records’.
    • 2018-2019 – Exhibited Manchester Art Gallery.
  • Location: Manchester Art Gallery.

MANX MAID.

  • Title(s): Manx Maid (Grosvenor Notes, 1887, p62).
  • Description: Only known image is a black-and-white line sketch in Grosvenor Notes, 1887, p62 – a woman wearing a bonnet, head tilted to the subject’s right.
  • Media: ?
  • Dimensions: ?
  • Signature/date/other text: ?
  • History:
    • 1887 – Exhibited Grosvenor Gallery (Grosvenor Notes, 1887, p62).
  • Location: ?

OLEANDER.

  • Title(s): Oleander (multiple sources).
  • Description: a young woman, shoulders turned three-quarters to the viewer, head in profile, holding a sprig of flowering oleander, steps and architectural features in the background.
  • Media: oil on panel.
  • Dimensions: 27.3 x 19.5 cm.
  • Signature/date/other text: signed and dated 1883.
  • History:
    • 1883 – Signed “Annie L Robinson / 1883” on front canvas.
    • 1883 – Exhibited Manchester Society of Women Painters ‘Third Annual Exhibition’ (The Manchester Evening News, 23 Nov 1883; The Guardian, 22 Nov 1883).
    • 1999 – Auctioned Phillip’s, Chester, 4 Mar, lot 760, “Signed dated / Oil/canvas / 27 x 19 cm / Illustrated on page 61 of the catalog”, sold: hammer £2,500. (ArtPrice.)
    • 1999 – Auctioned Sotheby’s, 9 Jun. (Reference?)
    • 2002 – Auctioned Sotheby’s, London, 2 Dec, lot 103, “Oil/panel / 27.5 x 20 cm / Signed dated «Annie Caption Robinson» lower right / Illustrated on page 76 of the catalog”, sold: hammer £6,000, premium £7,170. (ArtPrice.)
  • Location: ?

ON A TERRACE [ATTRIBUTED].

  • Title(s): On a Terrace (attributed). (Sotheby’s catalogue.)
  • Description: woman seated outdoors wearing a smock, hands clasped on the right of her lap, face and eyes turned to her left.
  • Media: oil on canvas. (Sotheby’s catalogue.)
  • Dimensions: 155 x 68 cm. (Sotheby’s catalogue.)
  • Signature/date/other text: ?
  • History:
    • 1987 – Auctioned Sotheby’s, 23 Mar, lot 268, “Illustrated on page 31 of the catalog”, passed. (Reference?)
  • Location: ?

ON HIS MOTHER’S KNEE.

  • Title(s): On His Mother’s Knee (1923 exhibition catalogue; Royal Academy catalogue).
  • Description: portrait of a young boy, sketchily painted.
  • Media: ?
  • Dimensions: approx. 59 x 52 cm (estimated from 1923 exhibition photo).
  • Signature/date/other text: ?
  • History:
    • 1923 – Exhibited Manchester (exhibition catalogue).
    • 1925 – Exhibited Women’s International Art Club, Suffolk-street galleries, 1925 (The Times, 4 Mar 1925).
    • 1929 – Exhibited Royal Academy, no. 148 (Royal Academy catalogue; pictured in The Times, 4 May 1929).
  • Location: ?

PORTRAIT OF A BOY WEARING A BROAD-COLLARED SHIRT.

  • Title(s): Portrait of a boy wearing a broad-collared shirt (this web site); Portrait of a young boy (Sotheby’s catalogue 1979).
  • Description: A portrait of a boy, unsmiling and looking directly at the viewer, wearing a broad-collared shirt.
  • Media: ?
  • Dimensions: “20 by 17in; 51 by 43cm” (Sotheby’s catalogue, 1979).
  • Signature/date/other text: “signed and dated 1898” (Sotheby’s catalogue, 1979).
  • History:
  • Location: ?

PORTRAIT OF A BOY (SURROUNDED BY GOLD) [ATTRIBUTED].

  • Title(s): Portrait of a boy (surrounded by gold) (this web site); Portrait of a Boy, half length (Christie’s, 1990); Portrait of a boy (Sotheby’s, 2003; David Rago 2018.)
  • Description: portrait of a young boy turned three-quarters towards the view, upper body only and unclothed, surrounded by gold leaf.
  • Media: “oil and gold leaf on panel” (Christie’s, 1990); “oil on panel” (Sotheby’s, 2003); “Oil and gold leaf on panel” (David Rago, 2018).
  • Dimensions: average 17⅔ x 111/5 inches (44.9 x 28.4 cm); panel 17 x 11⅜ inches (Christie’s, 1990); “19 by 11¼ / 48 by 23½ cm” (Sotheby’s, 2003); 17 x 11 inches (David Rago, 2018).
  • Signature/date/other text: none reported.
  • History:
    • 1990 – Auctioned Christie’s, London, 15 Jun, “Portrait of a Boy, half length / oil and gold leaf on panel / 17×11⅜ in. (43.2 x 28.9 cm.) / PROVENANCE: Lady Morley / £4,000-6,000″, lot 198, sold: hammer £4,000.
    • 2003 – Auctioned Sotheby’s, New York, 11 Dec, “19 by 11¼ in … 48 by 23½ cm … The Collecting Eye of Seymour Stein“, passed.
    • 2018 – Auctioned David Rago (Rago Arts), Lambertville, New Jersey, 20 Jan, “Property from the Collection of Seymour Stein, Founder, Sire Records / Painting is under glass with a slight warp to the board. There are several nicks with losses along edge of the board where it meets the frame. Minor inpainting scattered throughout (mostly in the body of the figure) and visible under blacklight. The gold paint has cracked in several areas and is separating. The gold area in the center above the figure’s head is flaking with losses … panel only … 17″ x 11″ / Illustrated on page 28 of the catalog”, sold: $5,500, premium $6,875.
  • Location: ?

PORTRAIT OF A CHILD WEARING A SASH [ATTRIBUTED].

  • Title(s): Portrait of a child wearing a sash (this web site).
  • Description: portrait of a young girl, waist upwards, wearing a blue-green sash around her middle, sideways on but head turned to the viewer, inside a painted oval.
  • Media: ?
  • Dimensions: ?
  • Signature/date/other text: none reported.
  • History:
    • c. 1940 – Property of Miss Edith F. Prestige, Blackheath, London, and given to Mrs. A_. (Private communication.)
    • 1965 – Bequeathed to daughter of Mrs. A_. (Formerly transferred 1967.) (Private communication.)
  • Location: private collection.

PORTRAIT OF A CHILD WITH CURLY HAIR.

  • Title(s): Portrait of a child with curly hair (this web site); Portrait of a young girl with curly hair, bust length (Bonham’s, 2011); Bust profile portrait of a young girl (Lacy, Scott and Knight, 2015).
  • Description: bust portrait, sideways on, of a young girl with profuse, curly, ginger hair.
  • Media: oil on canvas (Bonham’s, 2011).
  • Dimensions: “49.5 x 39.5cm (19 1/2 x 15 9/16in)” (Bonham’s, 2011); “51 x 40cm” (Lacy, Scott and Knight, 2015).
  • Signature/date/other text: Signed “Annie S” lower right.
  • History:
  • Location: ?

PORTRAIT OF A GIRL IN RED [ATTRIBUTED].

  • Title(s): Portrait of a girl in red. (Sotheby’s catalogue, 1988.)
  • Description: head an shoulders of a young woman, face three-quarters turned towards the viewer, eyes towards but not fully engaging the viewer (known from black-and-white photo).
  • Media: “oil on canvas” (Sotheby’s catalogue, 1988).
  • Dimensions: “30.5 by 20cm” (Sotheby’s catalogue, 1988).
  • Signature/date/other text: “signed with a monogram” (Sotheby’s catalogue, 1988).
  • History:
    • 1988 Jun 15 – Auctioned Sotheby’s, London, lot 190, “signed with a monogram” (Sotheby’s catalogue, 1988).
  • Location: ?

PORTRAIT OF A GIRL ON A SWING.

  • Title(s): Portrait of a girl on a swing (this web site); Girl on a Swing (Toovey’s, 2024).
  • Description: a young girl in a dark dress, red bead necklace, on a swing, background of foliage and tree trunks.
  • Media: oil on canvas (Toovey’s, 2024).
  • Dimensions: “107.0 x 81.5 cm” (Toovey’s, 2024).
  • Signature/date/other text: signed “Annie L Robinson” (Toovey’s, 2024); canvas stamped “REEVES & SONS, / MANUFACTURERS, / 113, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON.”
  • History:
  • Location: ?

PORTRAIT OF A GIRL WITH A MUFF.

  • Title(s): Portrait of a girl with a muff (this web site).
  • Description: portrait of a female child with grey coat, bonnet and much.
  • Media: oil on canvas (www.liveauctioneers.com).
  • Dimensions: canvas 45 x 34 in. / 114.3 x 86.4 cm (www.liveauctioneers.com).
  • Signature/date/other text: no signature or date indicated on 2024 auction sales page.
  • History:
  • Location: ?

PORTRAIT OF A LADY HOLDING A FLOWER (and 1932 PHOTOGRAPH).

  • Title(s): Portrait of a lady holding a flower (this web site); Portrait of a lady with a flower (Darnley Fine Art); Portrait of a lady (Christie’s, 2005).
  • Description: Bust portrait of a dark-haired woman, body turned halfway to the sitter’s left, face looking almost directly at the viewer. Her left hand is held up to the side of her face with what appears to be a flower in the palm. Background an abstract mottling and detailing increasingly diffuse outside the hair and face. The canvas was cut from a larger work visible in a photograph taken in the early 1930s.
  • Media: oil on canvas (Christie’s 2005).
  • Dimensions: original canvas approx. 137 x 86 cm (estimated from photograph); cut down canvas 57.1 x 45.7 cm (Christie’s, 2005).
  • Signature/date/other text: “signed «A Swynnerton» lower left” (Christie’s, 1991 & 2005).
  • History:
    • 1932 – Visible in photograph taken c. 1932.
    • 1991 Jun 28 – Auctioned Christie’s, South Kensington, “Signed «A Swynnerton» lower left”.
    • 1973 Jun 23 – Referenced in letter attached to back of picture (Darnley Fine Art).
    • 2005 Sep 7 – Auctioned Christie’s, London, lot 95, “signed ‘A. Swynnerton’ (lower left) / oil on canvas / 22½ x 18 in. (57.1 x 45.7 cm.)”, passed (reference?).
    • Date? – Acquired by current owner.
    • 2024 Dec (or earlier) – with Darnley Fine Art, exhibited in the vendor’s ‘Female Artists Exhibition’, Dec 2024; titled ‘Self portrait’.
  • Location: private collection.

PORTRAIT OF A LADY WEARING A FEATHER BOA.

  • Title(s): Portrait of a lady wearing a feather boa (this web site).
  • Description: Bust portrait of an older lady wearing a cap and what appears to be a feather boa; known only from 1893 black-and-white newspaper photo.
  • Media: ?
  • Dimensions: ?
  • Signature/date/other text: ?
  • History:
    • 1893 – Exhibited New Gallery, London. (Illustrated London News, 5 Apr 1893.)
  • Location: ?

PORTRAIT OF A LADY WEARING A FUR-TRIMMED GARMENT [ATTRIBUTED].

  • Title(s): Portrait of a lady wearing a fur-trimmed garment (this web site); Portrait of a lady wearing a fur trimmed maroon dress and with distant hills beyond (Mallham’s, 2019).
  • Description: “[bust] portrait of a lady wearing a fur trimmed maroon dress and with distant hills beyond” (Mallham’s, 2019).
  • Media: oil on canvas (Mallham’s, 2019).
  • Dimensions: canvas “24 [61.0 cm] x 20 [50.8 cm] inches”, frame “32 inches by 28 inches” (Mallham’s, 2019).
  • Signature/date/other text: “A … … … LOUI…A … … … … …” on back of frame; no signature observed on exposed canvas.
  • History:
    • 2019 Oct 23 – Auctioned Mallham’s, Oxford, lot 398, “ATTRIBUTED TO ANNIE SWYNNERTON (1844-1933) Portrait of a lady wearing a fur trimmed maroon dress and with distant hills beyond, oil on canvas / 59 x 49cm”, sold: hammer £850; provenance “Oxford estate” (Mallham’s, 2019).
    • Jun 2021 (and earlier?) onwards – With vendor Richard Taylor Fine Art, “24 [61.0 cm] x 20 [50.8 cm] inches / Housed in a fine ebonised frame, 32 inches by 28 inches and in good condition” (Richard Taylor Fine Art).
  • Location: Richard Taylor Fine Art.

PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN HOLDING A DOVE.

  • Title(s): Portrait of a lady holding a dove (John Nicholson’s, 2021).
  • Description: upper body of a woman wearing a dark blue dress, sideways on, facing her right, long pendant gold earring, holding a dove to her right cheek, dark background.
  • Media: oil on canvas (John Nicholson’s, 2021).
  • Dimensions: canvas 30 x 24 inches (John Nicholson’s, 2021).
  • Signature/date/other text: Annie L. Robinson / 189[3?].
  • History:
    • 187[3?] – Signed “Annie L. Robinson / 187[3?]” bottom left of canvas.
    • 2021 Jan 20 – Auctioned John Nicholson’s, Surrey, lot 291, “indistinctly signed”, sold: hammer £2,500.
  • Location: private collection, cleaned and relined since above images donated (private communication).

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG ITALIAN MAN.

  • Title(s): Portrait of a young Italian man (Christie’s, 2014; David Lay, 2016; Rosebery’s, 2021).
  • Description: head of a young man looking towards his right, wearing a dark coat, red shirt, scarf, and a tall hat with a decoration on the side, pale background.
  • Media: oil on canvas (all three auctions).
  • Dimensions: average of all three auctions 36.0 x 30.7 cm.
  • Signature/date/other text: signed lower right, “Annie L. … … …”, not able to distinguish whether Robinson or Swynnerton on available images, but Christie’s, 2014, states “Robinson”.
  • History:
    • Date? – Signed “Annie L. Robinson” lower right.
    • 2014 – Auctioned Christie’s, London, 14 Jan, lot 223, “Portrait of a young Italian man signed ‘Annie L. Robinson’ (lower right) oil on canvas 14¼ x 12 in. (36.1 x 30.5 cm.)”, passed.
    • 2016 – Auctioned David Lay, Penzance (www.archive.org), 28 Jan, lot 292, “Portrait of a Young Italian Man Oil on canvas Signed 36 x 30.5cm”, sold: hammer £420.
    • 2021 – Auctioned Rosebery’s, London, 18 Nov, lot 253, “Portrait of a young Italian Man; oil on canvas, 36x31cm Provenance: Christie’s, London, January 14th 2014, lot 223”, sold: hammer £480.
  • Location: ?

STUDY OF BOYS BATHING.

  • Title(s): Study of boys bathing (this web site); La Baignade ou Etude de nus (Fine Art Auctions Paris, 2022); Jeunes enfants nus dans la campagne (Drouot Richelieu, 2006).
  • Description: oil sketch of five young children (all boys?), unclothed, in a rural landscape; a trial or unfinished piece.
  • Media: “on canvas mounted on cardboard” (Fine Art Auctions Paris, 2022).
  • Dimensions: average of both auctions 44.75 x 51.25 cm.
  • Signature/date/other text: on back, hand-written, “Sketch by … Mrs Swynnerton RA bought for a few shilling at the Christ… after her death / E [A …] Bi[rmingham] … … …” (text in square brackets uncertain; presumed to reference the Christie, Manson and Woods posthumous studio sale, 9 Feb 1934).
  • History:
    • 1934 Feb 9 – sold at posthumous studio sale.
    • 2006 – Auctioned De Maigret (S.V.V.) DROUOT-RICHELIEU, Paris, France, 15 Jun, lot 62, “Jeunes enfants nus dans la campagne / Painting / Oil/canvas/board / 45 x 51.5 cm”, passed.
    • 2022 – Auctioned Fine Art Auctions Paris 31 May, lot 97, “La Baignade ou Etude de nus Huile sur toile marouflée sur carton Monogrammée milieu droit 44.5 x 51 cm Encadré sous verre [Bathing or Study of Nudes Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard Monogrammed center right 44.5 x 51 cm Framed under glass]”, sold: €600. (Assumed to be the above work auctioned in 2022 because similar size.)
  • Location: ?

A STUDY OF HANDS.

  • Title(s): Study of hands (label on back).
  • Description: oil sketch studies of a left and right hand, with narrow white cuffs, with a less prominent third central hand complete down to wrist only.
  • Media: oil on canvas, “gilt wood frame” (Criterion Auctioneers, 26 Aug).
  • Dimensions: ?canvas 15 x 12 in (= 38.1 x 30.5 cm, Christie’s, 3 Jun 1986); ?frame 41 x 34 cm (Criterion Auctioneers, 26 Aug).
  • Signature/date/other text: none on front; on back exhibition and framer’s labels, stamps: FR935 and 357VP
  • History:
    • 1908-1909? – Date unknown, but possibly c. 1908-1909 by similarity to Count Zouboff.
    • early 1930s? – One of three works by Annie known to have been in the undated “A Painter’s Choice” exhibition, the others being Blue Seascape and Gipsy Girl (known from 1934 illustration).
    • 1986 Mar 6 – Auctioned Christie’s, lot 109, “15.00 in. (38.10 cm.) (height) by 12.00 in. (30.48 cm.) (width)”, sold: hammer £600.
    • 1999 May 19 – Auctioned Christie’s, South Kensington, ‘The El Helou Collection,’ “provenance Edward Le Bas RA, Sir Gerald Kelly ARA”.
    • 2019 Aug 26 – Auctioned Criterion, Islington, London, lot 65, sold: hammer £460.
  • Location: private collection.

THE CONVALESCENT.

  • Title(s): The Convalescent (Tate).
  • Description: A woman shown from the waist up, eyes closed, head resting on her right hand, a small bunch of flowers in the other. She is wearing dark clothing, a green shawl and white headscarf, background an extensive landscape with a lake and mountains in the distance. The woman has dark marks on her eyelids (underpainting leached through?).
  • Media: oil on canvas (Tate).
  • Dimensions: “support: 571 x 635 mm frame: 793 x 840 x 130 mm” (Tate).
  • Signature/date/other text: no signature or date on visible canvas.
  • History:
    • c. 1887 – Tate.
    • 1929 – Exhibited Royal Academy, 1929; in Royal Academy Illustrated for that year.
    • 1929 – Presented to the Tate Collection by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest. Tate.
    • 2018-2019 – Exhibited Manchester Art Gallery, 23 Feb 2018 to 6 Jan 2019.
    • 2022 – Exhibited Tate Britain, November 2022, “Spotlights: Annie Swynnerton”.
  • Location: Tate.

THE CUP-BEARER.

  • Title(s): The Cup-bearer (this web site); The Cupbearer (Royal Academy catalogue, 1929; THE CUP-BEARER (Royal Academy Illustrated, 1929).
  • Description: a young boy holding a shiny metal jug with foliage in the background.
  • Media: ?
  • Dimensions: approx. 55 x 63 cm (estimated from 1923 exhibition photograph).
  • Signature/date/other text: signed Annie L. Swynnerton, 1???.
  • History:
    • Date? – Signed and dated, but date unreadable in available images.
    • 1923 – Exhibited Manchester Art Gallery.
    • 1929 – Exhibited Royal Academy, no. 108.
  • Location: ?

THE DEBUTANTE.

  • Title(s): The Debutante (Richard Taylor Fine Art).
  • Description: portrait of a young woman wearing a black dress and long black gloves, a bouquet of yellow flowers on her left shoulder and more in her haur,
  • Media: oil on canvas (Richard Taylor Fine Art).
  • Dimensions: “48 x 29 inches” (Richard Taylor Fine Art).
  • Signature/date/other text: signed “Annie L Swynnerton / 1891”.
  • History:
    • 1891 – Signed and dated.
    • 2018-2019 – Exhibited Manchester Art Gallery, 23 Feb 2018 to 6 Jan 2019, on loan from Richard Taylor Fine Art, “It has been suggested that the sitter is  Elsie Elizabeth Ebsworth later Mrs George Swinton … commissioned on her engagement to her future husband, Mr George Swinton … Never exhibited … Provenance: Coursham Court, Wiltshire.” (Richard Taylor Fine Art.)
  • Location:

THE DREAMER.

THE HARPSICHORD RECITAL.

  • Title(s): The Harsichord Recital (www.artory.com [dead link]).
  • Description: a woman wearing a dress with voluminous skirt, head and eyes turned towards the viewer, sits profile, hand on the keyboard of a harpsichord.
  • Media: “Oil on canvas” (www.artory.com [dead link]).
  • Dimensions: 68.58 cm × 88.9 cm (www.artory.com [dead link]).
  • Signature/date/other text: none visible in single known image.
  • History:
    • 1999 Nov 9 – Auctioned Bristol Auction Rooms [dead link], lot 813, “Illustrated on page 23 of the catalog”, sold: hammer £560.
  • Location: ?

THE HEAD OF A WOMAN.

  • Title(s): The head of a woman (this web site); Portrait study of a girl (Bonham’s, 2013); Head of a girl (Abbott and Holder, 2014).
  • Description:
  • Media: “Oil on canvas laid on board” (Bonham’s, Oxford, 2013).
  • Dimensions: average 27.5 x 25.7. cm; “29 x 26cm” (Bonham’s, Oxford, 2013); “11×10 inches. Framed: 17×16.25 inches” (Abbott and Holder, 2014).
  • Signature/date/other text: none on front of canvas.
  • History:
    • c. 1931? – Painted c. 1931 (by association with the An Image of Desire).
    • 1934 – Auctioned Christie’s, 9 Feb. (Abbott and Holder.)
    • 2013 May 15 – Auctioned Bonham’s, Oxford, “portrait study of a girl by J.W. Synnerton [mispelled as on auction web page], oil on canvas laid on board 29 x 26cm … unframed”, sold: premium £75 (along with ‘Portrait of a seated man’, attributed to Victor Pasmore RA).
    • 2014 Oct – Sold Abbott and Holder, “Head of a girl. Possibly a study for ‘The Soul’s Journey: the Soul’s Awakening’ (Glasgow Museums) Oil on canvas laid on board. Provenance: Annie Swynnerton Studio Sale Christies, 9th Feb. 1934. 11×10 inches. Framed: 17×16.25 inches.”, £675.
  • Location: ?

THE HEAD OF A YOUNG MAN (DRAWING).

  • Title(s): The head of a young man (drawing) (this web site).
  • Description: a finely executed drawing of a man’s head in near profile, turned slightly towards the viewer, wearing a hat and scarf, clean shaven.
  • Media: pencil on paper.
  • Dimensions: approximately A4 (29.7 x 21) size.
  • Signature/date/other text: fragment of label bottom right “…HESTER. / …al Institution). / … fd / …” (‘fd’ handwritten, rest of text printed).
  • History:
    • 1870s – According to information displayed by the drawing while on display Manchester Art Gallery, 2018-2019.
    • 2018 Feb 23 to 2019 Jan 6 – Exhibited Manchester Art Gallery – Painting Light and Hope.
  • Location: private collection.

THE LADY IN WHITE.

  • Title(s): The lady in white (this web site; National Gallery of Victoria; Christie’s, 11 Dec 2018); Full length portrait of a lady wearing a white dress and holding a bouquet of roses (Gorringe’s, 2017).
  • Description: “A blue-eyed lady who appears to be a singer, or an actress, stands on a stage before a curtained backdrop. She wears a white feather in her hair, strings of pearls around her neck and right arm, and has two ornate rings on her right hand. Her elaborate dress is of white silk or satin, with white lace trimming, a single red rose attached at its waist. In her left hand she holds a loose bouquet of flowers, some of which have fallen to the floor” (National Gallery of Victoria).
  • Media: oil on canvas (Christie’s, 2018).
  • Dimensions: “76 ¾ x 45 ¾ in. (195 x 116.2 cm.)” (Christie’s, 2018); “76 x 45in” (Gorringe’s, 2017).
  • Signature/date/other text: “inscribed in brown paint l.r.: Annie L. Robinson / 1878” (National Gallery of Victoria).
  • History:
    • 1878 – “signed and dated ‘Annie L. Robinson / 1878.’ (lower right)” (Christie’s, 2018).
    • 2017 Mar 21 – Auctioned Gorringe’s, Lewes, provenance “Property of a deceased estate”, lot 758, “Full length portrait of a lady wearing a white dress and holding a bouquet of roses / 193 x 114 cm”, sold: hammer £4,600.
    • 2018 Dec 11 – Auctioned Christie’s, London, “Signed dated ‘Annie L. Robinson 1878.’ lower right / Illustrated on page 88 of the catalog”, lot 196, sold: hammer £10,000, premium £12,500; gifted by the purchaser to the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. The ‘Lady in White’ title comes from this auction.
  • Location: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

THE LETTER.

  • Title(s): The Letter (Royal Academy).
  • Description: A young, very well-dressed, girl stands in profile, facing to the viewer’s left, holding a letter in her hands (written words sketchily depicted but nothing readable by the viewer) which she is reading by the light of a window with ornate roundels, a couple of vases standing on the windowsill.
  • Media: oil on canvas (Royal Academy).
  • Dimensions: canvas “1016 mm x 482 mm”, frame “1234 mm x 710 mm x 70 mm” (Royal Academy).
  • Signature/date/other text: monogram bottom right, the letters A, L and R combined. (Other examples of monogram use from 1879 and 1883.)
  • History:
    • Early 1880s? – Period when Annie was using her ALR monogram and by similarities to The Visit).
    • 1934 Feb 9 – Auctioned Christie, Manson and Wood’s (posthumous studio sale; assumed to be the same work). “67 THE LETTER 39½ in. by 18½ in.” (Posthumous studio sale catalogue.)
    • 1934 – Purchased from A. E. Anderson by the Royal Academy with the Edward Stott Fund, original frame with original gilding. [Arthur Edward Anderson (1870-1938), art collector about whom little is really known, who donated works to many galleries.]
    • 1968-1969 – Exhibited Royal Academy Bicentenary Exhibition, 14 Dec 1968 to 2 Mar 1969 (Netherlands Institute for Art History).
    • 2018-2019 – Exhibited Manchester Art Gallery, 23 Feb 2018 to 6 Jan 2019.
  • Location: Royal Academy.

THE LITTLE SENTINEL.

  • Title(s): The Little Sentinel (auctions 1982, 1989, 1990).
  • Description: “Young Child Standing By Copper Kettle In Landscape” (Bonham’s, 1994).
  • Media: oil on canvas (www.artnet.com).
  • Dimensions: average 99.2 x 71.2 cm; “99.06 cm × 71.12 cm” (Bonham’s, 1994); “99.06 cm × 71.12 cm” (Phillip’s, 1990); “39⅜ x 28 in 100 x 71 cm” (Christie’s, 1989); “39 in. x 28¼ in (99cm. x 71.5cm.)” (Sotheby’s, 1982); “99.06 cm × 71.12 cm” (Sotheby’s, 1988).
  • Signature/date/other text: “signed and inscribed ‘Roma 1875/1876/1878’ (different dates given in different auctions).
  • History:
    • 1875/1876/1878 – Signed and dated (different dates given in different auctions).
    • 1982 – Auctioned Sotheby’s, 31 Mar, “signed and inscribed ‘Roma 1878’, unframed”, lot 250. (research.rkd.nl.)
    • 1988 – Auctioned Sotheby’s, Chester, 24 Mar, lot 4178, sold: hammer £560. (Reference?)
    • 1989 Feb 24 – Auctioned Christie’s, London, “signed, dated 1875 and inscribed Roma”, lot 275, passed. (ArtPrice; research.rkd.nl.)
    • 1990 – Auctioned Phillip’s, London, 13 Nov, lot 93, “signed verso”, sold: hammer £950. (www.artnet.com; Artory [dead link].)
    • 1994 – Auctioned Bonham’s, Chelsea, 20 April, lot 234, “Young Child Standing By Copper Kettle In Landscape / 1876 … signed, dated, inscribed”, sold: £900. (www.artnet.com; Artory [dead link].)
  • Location: ?

THE REVERIE.

  • Title(s): The Reverie (Royal Academy, 1925, Royal Academy Illustrated, 1925).
  • Description: a young woman in a broad-brimmed hat, leaning forward, facing to the left of the viewer, resting on her right arms, chin on her left hand. (Known only from Royal Academy Illustrated, 1925, black-and-white image.)
  • Media: ?
  • Dimensions: ?
  • Signature/date/other text: none apparent in Royal Academy Illustrated image.
  • History:
    • 1925 – Exhibited Royal Academy, no. 435.
  • Location: ?

THE SOUTHING OF THE SUN.

  • Title(s): The Southing of the Sun (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Description: An older woman facing the viewer in a mountainous rural landscape, her arms spread apart, looking at and showing her palms to the viewer, wearing simple green shirt and skirt, gold earrings but no other jewellery; paintwork of impressionistic quality, not finely finished.
  • Media: oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery.
  • Dimensions: “framed: 7.5 cm (depth); 143.4 cm (height); 120.6 cm (width) / unframed: 111.9 cm (height); 88.9 cm (width)” Manchester Art Gallery.
  • Signature/date/other text: “Annie L Swynnerton / 1911”, bottom right.
  • History:
    • 1911 – Signed and dated.
    • 1922 – Present in Annie’s studio (photo in The Times, 25 Nov 1922).
    • 1923 – “purchased from the artist [by Manchester Art Gallery], 1923” Manchester Art Gallery.
    • 1923 – Exhibited Manchester Art Gallery – Paintings by Mrs Swynnerton, no. 14, “Painted at Nemi” (catalogue).
    • 2026 July 16 to 2018 Apr 29 – The Edwardians – Collections display Manchester Art Gallery.
    • 2018 – Exhibited Manchester Art Gallery, 23 Feb 2018 to 6 Jan 2019.
  • Location: Manchester Art Gallery.

THE FACTORY GIRL’S TRYST / THE SALFORD LASS.

  • Title(s): The Tryst (this web site; Manchester Art Gallery, 1923); The Tryst (The Factory Girl’s Tryst) (Manchester Art Gallery when on display during 2018-2019 exhibition); Tryst (Salford Museum & Art Gallery); Tryst, Salford Lass (Sheffield Independent, 29 Dec 1880).
  • Description: A young woman with a blue shawl draped over the back of her head, arms folded across her middle, stands facing the viewer in a night scene, distantly on her left a windmill in pale silhouette, three other distant lights reflected in a lake, almost indiscernible in the darkness of the background, behind her.
  • Media: oil on canvas (Salford Museum & Art Gallery).
  • Dimensions: “H 114 x W 78.5 cm” (Salford Museum & Art Gallery).
  • Signature/date/other text: “Annie L Robinson / 1880”.
  • History:
    • 1880 – Signed and dated 1880.
    • 1880 – “gift from H. Boddington, Jnr, 1880” (Salford Museum & Art Gallery).; “The picture by Miss Robinson, entitled the “Tryst,” or the “Salford Lass,” has been purchased by Mr. Henry Boddington, Jun., for presentation to the Art Gallery at Peel Park, Salford.” Sheffield Independent, 29 Dec 1880, p4.
    • 1881 – Exhibited Grosvenor Gallery – Summer Exhibition, no. 985, “The factory girl’s tryst / A. L. Robinson / Robinson, A. L. 77, Park-st., Greenhays, Manchester” (catalogue).
    • 1923 – Exhibited Manchester Art Gallery – Paintings by Mrs Swynnerton, no. 59, “The Tryst. / Painted in London. / Lent by the Corporation of Salford”.
    • 2018-2019 – Exhibited Manchester Art Gallery, 23 Feb 2018 to 6 Jan 2019.
  • Location: Salford Museum & Art Gallery.

THE UNRELENTING PAST / THOUGHTS.

THE VAGRANT.

  • Title(s): The Vagrant (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Description: The upper body of an older woman leaning towards the viewer, right hand raised, palm facing outward, left hand open, palm upward, a ring in the palm, behind at head level a row of buildings, the work generally sketchily painted [impressionist style, the buildings recalling cubist style of representation], the most precise work being around the eyes.
  • Media: oil on canvas (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Dimensions: “framed: 10 cm (depth); 93.5 cm (height); 79 cm (width) / unframed: 74 cm (height); 59.4 cm (width)” (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Signature/date/other text:
  • History:
    • 1900-1910 – Manchester Art Gallery.
    • 1934 – “bequeathed by the artist, 1934” (artuk.org).
    • 2018-2019 – Exhibited Manchester Art Gallery – Painting Light and Hope (exhibition 23 Feb 2018 to 6 Jan 2019, but this work not on continuous display).
  • Location: Manchester Art Gallery.

THE VISIT.

  • Title(s): The Visit (Academy Notes 1882, p60; The Athenæum, 27 May 1882, p673); The visit (Royal Academy exhibition catalogue, 1882); Little Visitors (The Graphic [newspaper] Christmas Edition, 1883).
  • Description: Two young children dressed in black, the hats and collars lace trimmed, sit on a sofa or bench-seat facing the viewer, a cloth bearing an embroidered crown and other designs draped over the back of the seat, in the background an ornate window with roundel and coloured glass; painting age-darkened, obscuring original colours.
  • Media: oil on canvas (Sotheby’s, 2023).
  • Dimensions: “unframed: 71.5 x 91.5 cm.; 28¼ x 36 in. / framed: 86 x 106 cm.; 33¾ x 41¾ in.” (Sotheby’s, 2023.)
  • Signature/date/other text: “signed and dated lower right: Annie L. Robinson / 1882” (Sotheby’s, 2023).
  • History:
  • Location: ?

THROUGH THE ORCHARD / THRO’ THE ORCHARD / THE YOUNG MOTHER.

TRYING ON HER MOTHER’S HAT.

  • Note: identified as work in 1956 exhibition through information provided in private correspondence.
  • Title(s): Trying on her mother’s hat (1956 exhibition).
  • Description: full length sketch of young girl in white dress and wide-brimmed hat.
  • Media: ?
  • Dimensions: approx. 37 x 21 cm (estimated from photos).
  • Signature/date/other text: Signed “A.L.S.” lower right.
  • History:
    • 1956 – Exhibited Alpine Club, “33. TRYING ON HER MOTHER’S HAT; 14½ ins. by 8 ins. Lent by Mrs Hugh Thomas”. (Reference?)
    • Passed down through family connections to current owner.
  • Location: private collection.

UNWINDING THE SKEIN.

  • Title(s): Unwinding the Skein (plaque on frame).
  • Description: two women facing each other, sitting in a piece of open land backed by trees, a pink-flowered bush behind them, the woman on the left in a white shawl and red skirt and holding a ball of wool, the woman on the right in a dark dress and with a skein of wool stretched between her raised hands.
  • Media: “painted on a thick wood board” (description on vendor web site).
  • Dimensions: canvas 13 x 15 in. / frame 18 x 20 in (vendor web site).
  • Signature/date/other text: Signed bottom right “ALS”; plaque attached to bottom of frame “Unwinding the Skein / ANNIE LOUISA SWYNNERTON, A.R.A. / 1945 ~ 1933″.
  • History:
    • Date? – Signed bottom right ‘ALS’.
    • 2018 – With vendor Bernardi’s Antiques, Toronto, sold Feb 2019 or earlier for $2,400.
  • Location: private collection.

WOMAN WITH AN INFANT AND YOUNG GIRL / MATERNITÉ / A MOTHER AND CHILD.

WOODLAND MAIDEN / VICTORIAN WOODLAND MAIDEN.

  • Title(s): Woodland Maiden (this web site); Victorian Woodland Maiden (Richard Taylor Fine Art); ‘Victorian’ omitted on this web site because otherwise numerous works could be considered to qualify for a similar prefix, also because as habitually an Italian citizen, work may be of an Italian subject.
  • Description: a young woman in red top resting on her elbows, hands cupping her face, eyes turned towards the upper right, background of trees against horizon, an single leafy spray crossing the frame diagonally obscuring the subjects elbows.
  • Media: oil on canvas (Richard Taylor Fine Art).
  • Dimensions: “Size 20 x 24 inches / Frame Housed in a very special leaf and berry gilt frame, 31 inches by 28 inches, in good condition” (Richard Taylor Fine Art).
  • Signature/date/other text: Swynnerton / 1887 or 1889 bottom right; Richard Taylor Fine Art has “1887”.
  • History:
    • 1887 or 1889 – Signed and dated; Richard Taylor Fine Art has “1887”.
    • 2024 Aug – With vendor Richard Taylor Fine Art, “Victorian Woodland Maiden … Provenance Italian estate / Medium Oil on Canvas / Size 20 x 24 inches / Frame Housed in a very special leaf and berry gilt frame, 31 inches by 28 inches, in good condition”.
  • Location: Richard Taylor Fine Art.

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