PORTRAIT OF DAME MILLICENT GARRETT FAWCETT (TATE).

See also Portrait of Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (Westminster).

Photos: Jonathan Russell.

  • Title(s): Portrait of Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (this web site); The late Dame Millicent Fawcett, G.B.E., LL.D. (Royal Academy 1930 exhibition catalogue).
  • Description: Portrait of the subject in an academic gown, backed by a folding screen and domestic interior details.
  • Media: Oil on canvas (Tate).
  • Dimensions: “support: 827 x 740 x 20 mm frame: 1120 x 1030 x 130 mm” (Tate).
  • Signature/date/other text: none on front of exposed canvas.
  • History:
    • Painted c. 1910 according to The Woman’s Leader and the Common Cause, 9 May 1930, p2, “This portrait … was painted over twenty years ago, though never before exhibited”. [*The Woman;s Leader and the Common Cause was a newspaper that supported National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies.]
    • 1930 – Exhibited Royal Academy – Summer Exhibition, no. 10 (catalogue).
    • 1930 – “Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1930″ (Tate).
    • 2018-2019 – Exhibited Manchester Art Gallery, 23 Feb 2018 to 6 Jan 2019.
    • 2022 – Exhibited Tate Britain, November 2022, “Spotlights: Annie Swynnerton” exhibition.
  • Location: Tate.

Millicent Fawcett became an honorary doctor of law (‘LLD.’)in 1899 (committees.parliament.uk).

“Half of the portrait was painted in the garden of Dame Millicent’s house in [2] Gower Street [Bloomsbury] and the other half at her [Annie’s] own home” (Elizabeth Crawford in Woman and her Sphere, 6 Mar 2023).

Westminster and Tate portraits.

Note: typo in The Art News, 31 May 1930, transposing the names of the artist and sitter: “It is pleasant to report that Dame Millicent Fawcett’s “Portrait of Mrs. Annie Swynnerton” has been bought by the Chantrey Bequest from the Royal Academy Exhibition.

Special thanks to Elizabeth Crawford for communications about the Millicent Garrett Fawcett portraits.

Page last updated 26 Oct 2025: note about The Art News error.