PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN WEARING A BONNET (PORTRAIT OF EDITH SUSAN DACRE) / A MORNING CALL / THE MORNING CALL, 1850, by Susan Isabel Dacre.

Images: Ewbank’s / Jonathan Russell

  • Title(s): Portrait of a young woman wearing a bonnet (Portrait of Edith Susan Dacre) (this web site); portrait of a girl wearing a bonnet (Ewbank’s); A Morning Call in the ?Fifties (text unclear, see image above); The Morning Call, 1850 (see History, 1904, below).
  • Description: Interior, a young woman sitting on a chaise longue, wearing a brown dress-coat with bonnet, a bowed scarf around her neck, holding a piece of paper or cloth in her hands, basket of flowers by her side, background a dull red drape.
  • Media: oil on canvas (Ewbank’s).
  • Dimensions: 67 x 56 cm (Ewbank’s).
  • Signature/date/other text: None noted on exposed canvas.
  • History:
    • 1903 – Exhibited Liverpool Art Gallery; Exhibited “at The Rochdale Gallery”, no. 43, “a guileless young woman sitting rather consciously on a sofa. The accepted curves of a young girl’s face are pleasantly neglected” [1].
    • 1904 – Exhibited “John Bailies Gallery in Manchester … John Bailies Gallery in Manchester (Likely the same as “The Morning call, 1850″ … a little girl dressed in the fashion of her grandmother – a fashion immortalized by Millias and Ford Madox Brown” [1].
    • 1909 – “Exhibited Manchester Academy of Fine Arts exhibition at the City Art Gallery” [1].
    • 1909 – Exhibited Manchester Academy of Arts Jubilee Exhibition, June
    • 2022 – Auctioned Ewbank’s (nr Guildford, Surrey), 22 Sep, lot 1426, “framed and glazed, bearing label to reverse of frame … Generally good condition overall, taking age into account. Extensive craquelure and areas of unevenness to the paint, especially around the sitter’s face. Some other surface marks.” provenance: a private collection, sold: hammer £1,700, premium £2,210.
  • Location: ?

The subject of Portrait of a young woman wearing a bonnet is Edith Susan Dacre (1875-1961), the daughter of William, Susan Isabel Dacre’s brother. Edith married Edward Willaim Cooper in 1898 and had three children with him. She died in Denbigh Wales where she and her family had resided for years. (Mike Stewart.)

Thanks to Ewbank’s Auction House for facilitating viewing of this work and to Mike Stewart for his researches.

Page last updated 6 Feb 2026.