Photos/images: Jonathan Russell/Mallams, Oxford.

• 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.

Considered ‘attributed’ on this web site because unsigned, no provenance trail and paint application style untypical of Annie. Feint writing on back of frame appears to be Annie’s name, but no other evidence.

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Many thanks to Mallham’s, Oxford, for allowing close inspection of the work.

Page last updated 15 Oct 2025.