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

Images: heritagecollections.parliament.uk.

• Title(s): Portrait of Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (Westminster) (this web site);
  Portrait of Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (Richard Taylor Fine Art, 2022); Portrait of Dame Millicent Fawcett, in academical gown (posthumous studio sale catalogue, assumed to be this work).
• Description: Portrait of the subject in an academic gown, backed by a folding screen and domestic interior details, holding a feather or quill.
• Media: oil on canvas (Richard Taylor Fine Art).
• Dimensions: “24 x 29 inches / Housed in a complementary Victorian Watts gilt frame, 36 inches by 31 inches and in good condition” (Richard Taylor Fine Art); “29 in. by 24 in.” (posthumous studio sale catalogue, assumed to be this work).
• Signature/date/other text: none visible on front of exposed canvas.
• History:
  • Painted c. 1910 (womanandhersphere.com).
  • 1934 – Assumed here to be same work – same dimensions – as that listed in Annie’s posthumous studio sale catalogue, at which time “unframed”. “82  PORTRAIT OF DAME MILLICENT FAWCETT, in academical gown”.
  • 1959 – Auctioned Christie’s, London, 1959. [National Portrait Gallery archive photograph reproduced in Terras and Crawtord (2022) Millicent Garrett Fawcett – Selected Writings. London: UCL Press].
  • 1970 – Auctioned Sotheby’s (ibid.).
  • 1973 – Auctioned Christie’s 1973 (ibid.).
  • Aug 2021 – Richard Taylor Fine Art; 1 Jul 2022 ‘for sale’; 28 Jul 2022 ‘on hold’; 5 Sep 2022 ‘sold’; 8 Dec 2022 ‘sold’.
  • Mar 2023 – Palace of Westminster.
• Location: Palace of Westminster.

Westminster and Tate portraits

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

Page last updated 7 Jun 2025.