Images/photos: Mellor & Kirk/Richard Taylor Fine Art.

Photos: Jonathan Russell.

• Title(s): Portrait of Emma Woods (Richard Taylor Fine Art).
• Description: Bust portrait of an older woman, turned partly to the right of frame, wearing cap and a rectangular brooch, background a curtained window looking out on to what appears to be a beach and the sea.
• Media: “Oil on canvas” (Richard Taylor Fine Art).
• Dimensions: 50.9 x 43.6 cm (average); “17 x 20 inches” (Richard Taylor Fine Art); “51 x 44cm” (Mellors & Kirk, 2022).
• Signature/date/other text: label on back (hand-written): “Emma Woods (nee King) / wife of Samuel Woods Jun…. / Born 1806 / Died 1896 / Painted 1895 Anne Swinnerton / R.A.”
• History:
  • 1895 – “Painted 1895” (label on back).
  • 2022 Jul 13 – Auctioned Mellors & Kirk, Nottingham, lot 760, provenance ‘Nottingham estate’, sold: hammer £1,000.
• Location: Richard Taylor Fine Art.

Anna Louisa Swynnerton ARA, RP (1844-1933) – Portrait of Emma Woods, bust length, in a black dress with gold brooch and lace cap, by a window, oil on canvas, 51 x 44cm, in the original gilt frame. / Emma Woods, nee King (1806-1896), was the wife of Samuel Woods (1808-1891), Quaker merchant. She was the daughter of Frederick Benjamin Lautenschlager who adopted the surname King (1781-1859), wholesale grocer, tea merchant and sugar refiner of London and his wife Emma Austin. / … Good original condition, unlined, beneath glass, never cleaned, no restoration. (Online catalogue description, Mellors & Kirk, Nottingham, 1 Jul 2022.)

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Thanks to Mellors and Kirk for allowing close inspection of the work while on display.

Page updated 27 Oct 2025.