PORTRAIT OF MISS AGNES GARRETT.

Image: Key’s, Aylsham, Norfolk, 8 Aug [image no longer present].

  • Title(s): Portrait of Miss Agnes Garrett (this web site); Three quarter length Portrait of a Lady by flowering Ivy (Key’s, 2014); Portrait of a young lady wearing a cream dress and silk neckscarf (Lacy Scott and Knight, 2014); Miss Agnes Garrett (1923 exhibition catalogue).
  • Description: Three-quarter length portrait of a lady in a white dress and neck-scarf standing in front of flowering ivy, holding a thin, leafy plant stem in her hands, painted in greens, browns and white, apart from pale blue sky upper right and three small blue blooms lower left.
  • Media: Oil on canvas, relined (Lacy, Scott and Knight, 2014; Key’s, 2014).
  • Dimensions: “125.5 x 73 cm” (Lacy, Scott and Knight, 2014); “50 x 29ins” (Key’s, 2014).
  • Signature/date/other text: “signed lower right” (Lacy, Scott and Knight, 2014; Key’s, 2014); “Ann.. L Swynnerton” (text obscure on available images).
  • History:
    • 1923 Jul – Exhibited Manchester Art Gallery – Painting by Mrs Swynnerton, A.R.A., no. 53 (visible in photo of Manchester 1923 exhibition), “Miss Agnes Garrett. / Painted in Sussex. / Lent by Lionel Crane, Esq.” [Loan information incorrect – an accidental duplication of information for no. 52. Loaned by Mrs. George Garrett (née Louisa Wilkinson), Agnes’s sister-in-law by marriage to her younger brother – information from Elizabeth Crawford.]
    • 2005 Sep 7 – Auctioned Christie’s, passed. [Awaiting catalogue.]
    • 2014 Jun 14 – Auctioned Lacy Scott and Knight, lot 866, “Portrait of a young lady wearing a cream dress and silk neckscarf … (re-lined), signed lower right, 125.5 x 73 cm”, sold: £210.
    • 2014 Aug 8 – Auctioned Key’s, Aylsham, Norfolk, lot 14, “Three quarter length Portrait of a Lady by flowering Ivy … signed lower right 50 x 29ins, unframed”, sold: £1,150.
  • Location: ?

“Agnes Garrett – at Agnes’ holiday home in Rustington, [painted] in the summer of 1885. The subject not only looks like Agnes, but I can see Sussex knapped flints in the wall behind her.” (Elizabeth Crawford – Woman and Her Sphere, retrieved 18 Mar 2023).

Also titled “Portrait of a Lady by flowering Ivy” or “… standing by flowering ivy” on some web pages.

Page last updated 29 Oct 2025.