SUSAN ISABEL DACRE.

All know works (to the web site author) by Susan Isabel Dacre are listed below, which effectively is therefore a ‘catalogue raisonné‘. [Note: This and linked pages currently being revised, so site visitors may notice some temporary inconsistencies in presentation.]

FIGURATIVE WORKS.

A FOREST NYMPH.

  • Title(s): A Forest Nymph (th)is web site, translated from 2015 Spanish auction title, ‘Ninfa del bosque’; Ninfa del bosque (auction, Spain, 2015).
  • Description: Three-quarter pastel portrait, head and shoulders, young woman with ivy leaves in her hair, clothed/drapes to neck line.
  • Media: Pastel on paper (reference?).
  • Dimensions: “81.3 x 66.0 cm” (reference?).
  • Signature/date/other text: signed (Isbilya Subastas, Seville, 2014).
  • History:
  • Location: ?

AN INTERIOR WITH FOUR CHILDREN.

  • Title(s): An interior with four children (this web site); A Drawing Room Interior with Four Young Girls playing (John Nicholson’s, 2018); Interior – Children Playing (Richard Taylor Fine Art).
  • Description: An interior with four children sitting on the floor, a girl left in profile in a dark dress, the other children facing the viewer and in light-coloured smocks, the child on the right holding an open book or magazine on her lap, on the wall behind the bottom portions of two framed landscape pictures are visible.
  • Media: Oil on canvas (Richard Taylor Fine Art).
  • Dimensions: Canvas 30 x 20 inches, frame 30 inches by 40 inches (Richard Taylor Fine Art).
  • Date/signature/other text: “Signed lower right and dated 1880” (Richard Taylor Fine Art).
  • History:
    • 1880 – Signed and sated 1880.
    • 2018 – Auctioned John Nicholson’s, Haslemere, Surrey, 23 May, lot 370, “A Drawing Room Interior with Four Young Girls playing, Oil on Canvas, Signed and Dated 1880, 20″ x 30″”, sold: £1,000.
    • Date? – Richard Taylor Fine Art, “Provenance Sussex auction. / Medium Oil on Canvas / Housed in a complimentary gilt frame, 30 inches by 40 inches also in good condition”, sold sometime before Dec 2022.
  • Location: ?

AN ITALIAN BOY [ATTRIBUTED].

  • Title(s): Italian boy (attributed) (this web site, translated from German); Italienischer Junge (zugeschrieben) (Ketterer, 5 Apr and 25 Oct 2008).
  • Description: Upper body portrait of an Italian boy or young man, body turned 1/4 to left frame, face facing viewer but eyes looking to right frame, white shirt, open red waistcoat and open brown coat, background a featureless wash.
  • Media: Oil on canvas (Invaluable).
  • Dimensions: 49.5 x 62.5 cm (Invaluable).
  • Date/signature/other text: “With remains of a signature in red in lower left” (Invaluable, not visible online images).
  • History:
    • 2008 – Auctioned Ketterer, Hamburg, German, 5 Apr and 25 Oct; “Good overall impression. Right cheek and chin retouched” (Invaluable).
  • Location: ?

A YOUNG GIRL PLAYING THE VIOLIN [NO IMAGE].

  • History:
    • Exhibited “at the fall Manchester Fine Arts Academy at the City art gallery in 1898. It was the central picture of the show” [1].

FLORENTINE MOTHER AND CHILD [NO IMAGE].

  • Note: A work, Annie Louisa Swynnerton’s Florentine Mother and Child, is also known. These may be the same work with the authorship being wrongly ascribed.
  • History:
    • 1882 – “exhibited in 1882 by the Manchester Society of Women Painters.  A composition shown at the Annual Exhibition in the old Town Hall” [1].

IL FRATRE [NO IMAGE].

  • Note: A work of similar title and date, Annie Louisa Swynnerton’s Il Frate (The Brother), is also known. These may be the same work with the authorship being wrongly ascribed.
  • History:
    • 1882 – “exhibited in 1882 by the Manchester Society of Women Painters. A composition shown at the Annual Exhibition in the old Town Hall.” [1].

ITALIAN GIRL WITH NECKLACE.

  • Title(s): Italian girl with neckland (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Description: “Head and chest right side portrait of young Italian girl, wearing a shawl wrapped around her, a coral-coloured necklace, and an ivy leaf wreath on her head. Her right arm is raised against her chest, holding the shawl which falls from her left shoulder, and her head is turned to the right, looking behind her. The brushwork is exaggerated and the paint appears to be quite textured in its application. Her costume is exotic and theatrical and would have been worn especially for the occasion” (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Media: Oil on canvas (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Dimensions: “framed: 10 cm (depth); 64.1 cm (height); 53.3 cm (width) / unframed: 38.7 cm (height); 27.5 cm (width)” (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Date/signature/other text: None apparent.
  • History:
    • 1884 – “gift from Henry Boddington, 1884” (artuk.org).
  • Location: Manchester Art Gallery.

ITALIAN GIRL WITH RED CUFFS / ITALIAN CHILD.

  • Title(s): Italian girl with red cuffs (this web site); Italian child (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Description: “Three quarter left side portrait of young Italian girl, eyes downcast, arms raised and hands clasped together in front of her chest. She is wearing a costume with red and yellow sleeves, bright red trousers, and a white shirt with a green tie around her neck. Her hair is long and very dark black with a long fringe. The background is painted in an impressionist style with very gestural brushwork in light and mid grey, white and sky blue. This painting style is continued in the portrait itself with certain details such as the cuffs painted in a similarly gestural style” (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Media: Oil on panel (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Dimensions: “framed: 10 cm (depth); 57.7 cm (height); 49.5 cm (width) / object 32.1cm (12 5/8in); 23.9 cm (width) (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Date/signature/other text: None apparent from online image (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • History:
    • 1884 – Gift from Henry Boddington, 1884 (artuk.org).
  • Location: Manchester Art Gallery.

ITALIAN WOMEN IN CHURCH.

  • Title(s): Italian Women in Church (title on frame; Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Description: “Two Italian women in peasant dress with headscarves, standing together against an interior background. Both stand looking to the left, one woman carrying a baby in her arms. The painting is realistic, both women have a vacant expression on thier faces, and are looking off in the direction they are facing, to the left” (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Media: Oil on canvas (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Dimensions: “framed: 9 cm (depth); 98 cm (height); 82.5 cm (width) / unframed: 76 cm (height); 61 cm (width)” (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Signature/date/other text: “artist’s inscription : : brc : artist’s name : S. Isabel Dacre” (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • History:
    • 1927 – “Manchester Academy of Fine Arts. 68th Annual Exhibition … a portrait study by Miss Isabel S. Dacre of “Italian Women in Church” …” (The Times, 8 Feb 1927).
    • 1927 – “Gift from Francis Dodd [to Manchester Art Gallery]” (artuk.org); “PRESENTED BY A GROUP OF SUBSCRIBERS TO THE CORPORATION OF MANCHESTER 1927” (plaque on frame).
    • 1927 – “presented to the gallery by a group of subscribers in the spring of this year” (Manchester Guardian, 30 Dec 1927, p. 11).
  • Location: Manchester Art Gallery.

LA REVEUSE (THE DREAMER) [NO IMAGE].

  • History:
    • 1883 – “A seated figure in white, harmonious and delicate in colour exhibited in 1883 by the Manchester Society of Women Painters.” [1].

LORETTO [NO IMAGE].

  • Description: “A portrait of a little girl in an old fashioned chair, with a charming childish face bent a little forward and feet tucked almost out of sight. This was exhibited in 1882 by the Manchester Society of Women Painters / A portrait of a lady is not only full of life and character but displays technical qualities of a very exceptional kind. The painting of the child’s velvet dress is a skillful and delicate piece of work, needing only a rather brighter light on its lower portion to give the full play of light and shade on the material This was exhibited in 1882 by the Manchester Society of Women Painters.” [1].
  • History:
    • 1882 – “exhibited in 1882 by the Manchester Society of Women Painters.  Sold in 1882 for £15 15s.” [1].

PORTRAIT OF A CHILD.

  • Title(s): Portrait of a child (artuk.org).
  • Description: A young girl seated on a cloth-covered chair, facing and looking at viewer, her left arm and hand on the arm of the chair, her right on a small plate with three strawberries by her side, dark background.
  • Media: Oil on canvas (artuk.org).
  • Dimensions: “H 90 x W 70 cm” (artuk.org).
  • Signature/date/other text: ?
  • History:
    • 1928 – “gift from Mrs Madge Massey Cooper [to Salford Art Gallery and Museum]” (artuk.org).
  • Location: Salford Museum and Art Gallery (artuk.org).

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN SEATED AT A ROUND TABLE.

  • Title(s): Portrait of a young woman seated at a round table.
  • Description: An interior, a young woman seated left side of picture at a round table, the table with single pillar stand and shiny top, her hands on a book and a small vase of white flowers and other items on the far side of the table, simple dull blue dress, long dark red/brown hair, the woman’s face turned towards the viewer, red curtains behind partly open to show window frame, daylight and leafy exterior.
  • Media: “oil painting” (Manchester Guardian, 14 May 1927).
  • Dimensions: ?
  • Date/signature/other text: ?
  • History:
    • “[painting] by Miss Isabel Dacre president of the Attic Club (Manchester Society of Women Artists) included in the exhibition of the society’s work now held in Manchester” (Manchester Guardian, 14 May 1927).
    • Subject may be Susan (aged c. 12), daughter of Susan Isabel Dacre’s brother, William (private correspondence).
    • “Passed down through extended family until acquired by current owner” (private correspondence).
  • Location: private collection.

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN WEARING A BONNET (PORTRAIT OF EDITH SUSAN DACRE) / A MORNING CALL / THE MORNING CALL, 1850.

  • Title(s): Portrait of a young woman wearing a bonnet (Portrait of Edith Susan Dacre) (this web site); portrait of a girl wearing a bonnet (Ewbank’s); A Morning Call in the ?Fifties (text unclear, see image above); The Morning Call, 1850 (see History, 1904, below).
  • Description: Interior, a young woman sitting on a chaise longue, wearing a brown dress-coat with bonnet, a bowed scarf around her neck, holding a piece of paper or cloth in her hands, basket of flowers by her side, background a dull red drape.
  • Media: oil on canvas (Ewbank’s).
  • Dimensions: 67 x 56 cm (Ewbank’s).
  • Signature/date/other text: None noted on exposed canvas.
  • History:
    • 1903 – Exhibited Liverpool Art Gallery; Exhibited “at The Rochdale Gallery”, no. 43, “a guileless young woman sitting rather consciously on a sofa. The accepted curves of a young girl’s face are pleasantly neglected” [1].
    • 1904 – Exhibited “John Bailies Gallery in Manchester … John Bailies Gallery in Manchester (Likely the same as “The Morning call, 1850″ … a little girl dressed in the fashion of her grandmother – a fashion immortalized by Millias and Ford Madox Brown” [1].
    • 1909 – “Exhibited Manchester Academy of Fine Arts exhibition at the City Art Gallery” [1].
    • 1909 – Exhibited Manchester Academy of Arts Jubilee Exhibition, June
    • 2022 – Auctioned Ewbank’s (nr Guildford, Surrey), 22 Sep, lot 1426, “framed and glazed, bearing label to reverse of frame … Generally good condition overall, taking age into account. Extensive craquelure and areas of unevenness to the paint, especially around the sitter’s face. Some other surface marks.” provenance: a private collection, sold: hammer £1,700, premium £2,210.
  • Location: ?

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN WITH LACE CUFF.

  • Title(s): Portrasit of a young woman with lace cuff (this web site).
  • Description: Bust portrait of a young woman, face turned almost profile to the viewer’s right, only her left hand visible, holding clothing which is partly covering her head, with a lace cuff.
  • Media: “painting” (private correspondence).
  • Dimensions: ?.
  • Signature/date/other text: ?
  • History:
    • “Passed down through extended family until acquired by current owner” (private correspondence).
  • Location: private collection.

PORTRAIT OF AN ITALIAN WOMAN.

  • Title(s): Portrait of an Italian woman (this web site); Portrait einer Frau mit Ohrringen [Portrait of a Woman with Earrings] (Von Zengen Kunstauktionen, 2025).
  • Description: Bust portrait of a woman, body turned to the viewer’s left, face to the viewer but eyes looking to the sitter’s left, wearing ornate, circular earrings, only the right hand visible carrying (unclear) rolled scrolls?
  • Media: Oil on canvas (Von Zengen Kunstauktionen, 2025).
  • Dimensions: 57 x 40 cm (Von Zengen Kunstauktionen, 2025).
  • Signature/date/other text: “S. Isabel Dacre. / Rome 1875” (Von Zengen Kunstauktionen, 2025).
  • History:
    • 1875 – Signed and dated.
    • 1875 – Possibly the “cleverly-executed painting of an Italian girl” exhibited at the Yorkshire Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures, Leeds (The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 25 Sep 1875. p6.).
    • 2025 Nov 21-22 – Auctioned Von Zengen Kunstauktionen, lot 1677, “Portrait einer Frau mit Ohrringen”, Öl/Lwd., doubliert, 57 x 48, unten links signiert und datiert [Dacre, Susan Isabel (1844-1933), “Portrait of a Woman with Earrings”, oil on canvas, relined, 57 x 48 cm, signed and dated lower left]”.
  • Location: ?

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GIRL IN A SATIN CAP.

  • Title(s): Portrait of a young girl in a satin cap [1].
  • Description: Fine black-and-white chalk sketch, head and shoulders, the sitters body turned almost profile to the viewer’s left, of a girl/young woman wearing a dark head cloth.
  • Media: “black and white chalk drawing” [1].
  • Dimensions: “21 1/4 x 17 5/16 in. (54 x 44 cm)” [1].
  • Signature/date/other text: None apparent on image.
  • History:
    • 1878-1879 – Académie Julian [1].
    • ? – Acquired by the André Del Debbio Collection, Paris [1].
  • Location: André Del Debbio Collection, Paris [1].

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GIRL IN A WHITE DRESS.

  • Title(s): Portrait of a young girl in a white dress (this web site); Portrait of a girl (artuk.org).
  • Description: Portrait of a young girl in a white dress with frilled shoulders and cuffs, turned slightly to the viewer’s right, eyes towards the viewer, left hand on the arm of a tall chair, right arm loose at her side, yellow flowers lower right, dark background (significant age-related darkening/discolouring?), framed pictures faintly visible high on wall behind.
  • Media: Oil on canvas (artuk.org).
  • Dimensions: “H 90 x W 58.5 cm” (artuk.org).
  • Signature/date/other text: None apparent (available online images).
  • History:
    • 1928 – “gift from Mrs Madge Massey Cooper” (artuk.org).
  • Location: Salford Museum & Art Gallery (artuk.org).

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN IN A PINK DRESS.

  • Title(s): Portrait of a young woman in a pink dress (this web site); Portrait of girl in pink dress (Phillip’s, 1985); Portrait in a young girl (artory.com [dead link]).
  • Description: Portrait of a young woman, seated, hands on her lap (holding an object, but detail unclear in available image), body turned one-quarter to viewer’s left, her head and eyes turned to the viewer’s right, wearing a high-necked dress.
  • Media: Oil on canvas (artory.com [dead link]).
  • Dimensions: “81.28 x 66.04 cm” (artory.com [dead link]).
  • Signature/date/other text: “signed” (artory.com [dead link]).
  • History:
    • 1985 – Auctioned Phillip’s, 18 Jun, lot 76, “Oil on canvas / 81.28 cm x 66.04 cm / signed”, sold: hammer £450 (source of information?). [Note: Assumed to be same work because of identical dimensions.]
    • 1988 – Auctioned Sotheby’s, London, 7 Nov, lot 313, “Portrait Of Young Girl / 81 cm × 66 cm / Illustrated on page 32 of the catalog”, sold: hammer £850 (artory.com [dead link]), premium £935 (source?).
  • Location: ?

SINGING CHILDREN.

  • Media: oil on canvas.
  • Dimensions: 64.5 x 107.5 cm.
  • History:
    • 1888 – Monogrammed and dated.
    • 1888 – Exhibited Manchester Society of Women Painters, Fifth Exhibition, “Singing Children”.
    • 1889 – Exhibited New Gallery, 121 Regent Street, Summer Exhibition, “Singing Children” (Birmingham Daily Post, 18 May 1889).
    • 1897 – Exhibited Earl’s Court Victorian Era Exhibition, “Lent by Hy. Boddington, Esq.” (contemporary catalogue).
    • 1901 – Exhibited Whitechapel Gallery, no. 224, “Singing Children / By Isabella Dacre / Lent by Henry Boddington, Esq”. (Exhibition catalogue.)
    • 2019 – Auctioned Tennants, Leyburn, N Yorks, 16 Nov, lot 538, “In restored and re-lined condition. Cleaned and re-varnished. There are two notable patches of over-painting/strengthening to the brow, cheek and neck of the young girl standing in profile to the left hand side and the tip of the chin of the girl standing next to her. There is an asymmetrical shaped area of essentially vertically and linear area of re-touching/over-painting (approx 10-12 cm in length) at the central figure’s right hand shoulder with a dense patch of over painting above the book that she is holding (approx 2 cm by 6 cm at its widest point). A patch of strengthening also to her left hand cheek. There are general and relatively significant areas of re-painting within the red of the young girl’s dress holding the book, partially to conceal very widely spaced craquelure. General strengthening to the far right hand side boys hand. It is possible that some areas of re-painting may not be detectable“, sold: £7,000.
  • Location: ?

THE YOUNG VIOLINIST.

  • Media: oil on canvas.
  • Dimensions: 81.3 x 66.0 cm.
  • History:
    • 1904 – “signed and dated 1904“.
    • 1985 – Auctioned Phillip’s, London, 18 June , “The Young Violinist … 81.28 cm × 66.04 cm”, lot 75, sold: hammer £500.
    • 2019 – Auctioned Gorringe’s, Lewes, 1 Oct , lot 650, “Oil on canvas with a rather shiny varnish, paint showing a pronounced craquelure which is starting to lift throughout to the point where it is getting close to flaking particularly through the skirt, but also in the flesh tones otherwise small fibres or hairs are stuck in the varnish most notably the brown area in front of her face, signed lower right, housed in an old an probably original ebonised frame which has a few small dents and losses, a paper label attached giving further details of the work such as title, date etc.”, provenance “A private collection in Sussex”, sold: £1,000.
    • 2020 onwards – for sale at John Robertson, Surrey, “Condition Excellent. The canvas has been conserved and relined … 32″ Tall x 26 Wide … Provenance A private collection in Sussex … Signed and dated 1904”.
  • Location: with vendor.

WATCHING THE SWANS [NO IMAGE].

  • Note: A work titled “Swans” is on record, acquired by Manchester Art Gallery in 1927. It may be a cut down portion of this work.
  • Description: “A large and ambitious picture, which has brilliant and charming passages but fails somewhat as a whole. The canvas perhaps is unnecessarily large and the picture lacks unity. Is this the same as a picture described as Children gazing at swans on a lake? / A large painting painted with sympathy and understanding illustrates her unfailing instinct for the right use of her medium. “The Swans” – a good study of children”. [1]
  • History:
    • “exhibited in 1883 by the Manchester Society of Women Painters”. [1]
    • “annual exhibition of the Manchester Academy in 1887”. [1]
    • “exhibited in the Manchester Art Gallery, on Mosley street in 1927”. [1]

NAMED PORTRAITS.

LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY.

MARIETTA [NO IMAGE].

  • History:
    • 1880 – Previously exhibited in 1880 at the Royal Academy in London. [1]
    • 1883 – “exhibited … by the Manchester Society of Women Painters where it was sold”. [1]
    • 1978 – “Sold … Sotheby in Amsterdam for £350”. [1]

PORTRAIT OF ALDERMAN SIR THOMAS BAKER (MANCHESTER ART GALLERY).

  • Media: oil on canvas.
  • Dimensions: 63.9 x 49.1 cm.
  • History:
    • 1886 – Art.uk.
    • 1911 – Gifted to Manchester Art Gallery by Henry Boddington.
  • Location: Manchester Art Gallery.

PORTRAIT OF ALDERMAN SIR THOMAS BAKER (MANCHESTER TOWN HALL).

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN SEATHED AT A ROUND TABLE.

  • Title(s): Portrait of a young woman seated at a round table.
  • Description: An interior, a young woman seated left side of picture at a round table, the table with single pillar stand and shiny top, her hands on a book and a small vase of white flowers and other items on the far side of the table, simple dull blue dress, long dark red/brown hair, the woman’s face turned towards the viewer, red curtains behind partly open to show window frame, daylight and leafy exterior.
  • Media: “oil painting” (Manchester Guardian, 14 May 1927).
  • Dimensions: ?
  • Date/signature/other text: ?
  • History:
    • “[painting] by Miss Isabel Dacre president of the Attic Club (Manchester Society of Women Artists) included in the exhibition of the society’s work now held in Manchester” (Manchester Guardian, 14 May 1927).
    • Subject may be Susan (aged c. 12), daughter of Susan Isabel Dacre’s brother, William (private correspondence).
    • “Passed down through extended family until acquired by current owner” (private correspondence).
  • Location: private collection.

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN WITH LACE CUFF.

  • Title(s): Portrasit of a young woman with lace cuff (this web site).
  • Description: Bust portrait of a young woman, face turned almost profile to the viewer’s right, only her left hand visible, holding clothing which is partly covering her head, with a lace cuff.
  • Media: “painting” (private correspondence).
  • Dimensions: ?.
  • Signature/date/other text: ?
  • History:
    • “Passed down through extended family until acquired by current owner” (private correspondence).
  • Location: private collection.

PORTRAIT OF BERTHA EDGAR / PORTRAIT OF A GIRL IN A RED DRESS.

PORTRAIT OF COLONEL VOLBERT.

PORTRAIT OF HELEN.

  • Media: oil on canvas.
  • Dimensions: 90 x 70 cm.
  • History:
    • 1882 – Signed and dated.
    • 2014 – Auctioned Nesbits Auctions Ltd., Southsea, 4 Jun 2014.
  • Location: ?

PORTRAIT OF LOUISE FICHET.

PORTRAIT OF LYDIA BECKER.

  • Media: oil on canvas.
  • Dimensions: canvas 66.5 x 52.3 cm, frame 84.1 x 69.6 x 6.5 cm.
  • History:
  • Location: Manchester Art Gallery.

PORTRAIT OF MARGARET AND DOROTHY, THE DAUGHTERS OF LAWRENCE PILKINGTON, ESQ.

PORTRAIT OF M. GUILLAUX / A FRENCH OFFICER (assumed to be the same work).

  • History:
    • 1927 – Exhibited Manchester Art Gallery; “Painted with sympathy and understanding illustrates her unfailing instinct for the right use of her medium. A lively little portrait illustrates her unfailing instinct for the right use of her medium” (source?); “a French artillery officer, in which the drawing and colouring are very powerful” (The Manchester Evening News, 23 Nov 1883, p2) [1].

PORTRAIT OF MRS E. E. HOUGHTON.

  • Media: ?
  • Dimensions: ?
  • History:
    • 1894 – Exhibited 1894, no. 9 (location?).
  • Location: ?

PORTRAIT OF MR SWINNERTON [NO IMAGE].

  • Note: Annie Louisa Swynnerton also painted a portrait of her husband, Joseph Swynnerton, but that is dated 1908 (or 1905).
  • History:
    • 1882 – Exhibited in 1882 by the Manchester Society of Women Painters [1].

PORTRAIT OF SALLY AND KITTY DACRE / TWO GIRLS WITH YELLOW FLOWERS [NO IMAGE].

  • Title(s): Portrait of Sally and Kitty Dacre (this web site); “Two girls with yellow flowers” (title used in private correspondence).
  • Description: two young girls seated, one in a yellow dress, the other in a green dress, several large yellow flowers blooming above their heads, surrounded by broad, heart-shaped green leaves.
  • Media: “painting” (private correspondence).
  • Date/signature/other text: 1888?
  • Location: private collection.

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST’S MOTHER.

PORTRAIT OF WINIFRED.

  • Media: oil on canvas.
  • Dimensions: ?
  • History:
    • 1882 – Signed and dated.
  • Location: private collection.

THE RAIN IT RAINETH EVERY DAY / A RAINY DAY / PORTRAIT OF SUSAN ISABEL DACRE (THE YOUNGER, NIECE OF S. ISABEL DACRE SENIOR).

  • Note: Still Raining exhibited Manchester Art Gallery #94, 1927, may also be this work [1].
  • Title(s): The Rain it Raineth Every Day (The Manchester City News, 22 Sep 1906)/ A Rainy Day (Manchester Guardian, 17 May 1927) / Portrait of Susan Isabel Dacre (the younger, niece of S. Isabel Dacre senior) (this web site).
  • Description: Three-quarter length portrait of a young woman in a red dress with white collar, a narrow black sash around her waist, standing by and turned towards a window, daylight outside.
  • Media: “oil painting” (Manchester Guardian, 17 May 1927).
  • Dimensions: ?
  • Date/signature/other text: ?
  • History:
    • 1906 – Exhibited “Manchester Academy of Fine Arts … at the City Art Gallery” (private correspondence).
    • 1927 – Exhibited “A Rainy Day … Manchester Society of Women Painter (Attic Club) #246″ (Manchester Guardian, 17 May 1927, image in newspaper confirming this work is the one referred to) [1].
  • Location: ?

LANDSCAPES, SCENIC STUDIES, ANIMAL STUDIES), STILL LIFE STUDIES.

A GATEWAY IN SIENA.

  • Media: oil on canvas.
  • Dimensions: canvas 31.7 x 23.6 cm, frame 46.5 x 38.2 x 7.1 cm.
  • History:
    • 1927-1928 “Dacre, Dodd, Wood“.
    • 1942 – Gift from Miss Florence Chapman, 1942.
  • Location: Manchester Art Gallery.

A VIEW IN VENICE.

ASSISI FROM PERUGIA.

  • Media: oil on canvas.
  • Dimensions: canvas 30.6 x 38.1 cm, frame 48.3 x 56.0 x 6.5 cm.
  • History:
    • c. 1889 – artuk.org.
    • 1932 – “Bequeathed by Mr C. P. Scott”.
  • Location: Manchester Art Gallery.

ASSISI FROM THE CITY WALLS.

ASSISI CATHEDERAL (CATTEDRALE DI ASSISI).

A VIEW FROM A WINDOW [NO IMAGE].

  • History:
    • 1925 – “In 1925 a view from a window shown by Manchester Society of Women Painters” [1].

BORGHESE GARDENS [NO IMAGE].

  • History:
    • 1882 – “exhibited in 1882 by the Manchester Society of Women Painters.  Conveys first vivid impressions of sunshine and cloud rather than the multitude of facts, which the eye discovers after a long examination but conveys them with a vigour and directness which do not fail to charm. (Same painting as An Avenue in the Borgeshe Gardens: Rome?) “The Borghese Gardens”- A landscape shown at the Annual Exhibition in the old Town Hall.” [1].

COLLEPARDO / COLLEPARDO FROM THE VALLEY (assumed to be the same work) [NO IMAGE].

  • “… panorama of hill beyond hill and the city in the near distance … in which the town is piled on its hillside with the great church crowning it …” (The Manchester Guardian, 28 March, 1913) [1].
  • 1927 – Exhibited Manchester Art Gallery.

COURT HILL, CLOVELLY [NO IMAGE].

  • History:
    • 1883 – “exhibited in 1883 by the Manchester Society of Women Painters. A clever landscape study of the gorse-clad.” [1]. Note: ‘Courth Hill’ in original message assumed to be an error for ‘Court Hill’, referring to the vicinity of Clovelly Court.

DOROTHY [NO IMAGE].

  • History.
    • 1883 – “exhibited in 1883 by the Manchester Society of Women Painters where it was sold.” [1].

FACADE OF SAN FRANCESCO.

  • Media: oil on canvas.
  • Dimensions: “45.8 x 35.7cm; 18 x 14in”.
  • History:
  • Location: ?

FLOWERS [NO IMAGE].

  • Title(s): Flowers (title used in private correspondence).
  • Description: “The work included a bumble bee, 2 flies and 2 ants, and possibly a butterfly” (private correspondence).
  • Media: “was done in chalk” (private correspondence).
  • Date/signature/other text: “dated 1856 or 1866 (hard to read) and was signed “S Dacre”” (private correspondence).
  • History:
    • “a copy of [a] work in the Louvre” (private correspondence).
    • A sticker on the back “Rowley’s, fine art dealers, framing, rebuilding and restoring. 5, Bargin Sq., St Ann’s Square, Manchester” (private corrensponence).
  • Location: private collection.

FOUNTAIN.

  • History:
    • 1992 = “exhibited in 1882 by the Manchester Society of Women Painters. A sketch form Italy or Brittany, Coveys first vivid impressions of sunshine and cloud rather than the multitude of facts, which the eye discovers after a long examination but conveys them with a vigour and directness which do not fail to charm” [1].

FROM A BALCONY AT PERUGIA.

  • Media: oil on canvas.
  • Dimensions: ?
  • History:
  • Location: private collection.

FRUIT WITH SHRIMP.

  • Title(s): Fruit with shrimp (title used in private correspondence).
  • Description: Still life chalk study including bunch of grapes attached to leafy vine, bowl of ?cherries and other items, including a single shrimp, on a round ?copper tray, cloth draped below, dark background.
  • Media: “a study in chalk” (private correspondence).
  • Date/signature/other text: “‘was painted in 1874 … signed” (private correspondence).
  • History:
    • “Passed down through extended family until acquired by current owner” (private correspondence).
    • “‘Fruit with Shrimp’ is a pair to and similar to ‘Flowers’, a study in chalk” (private correspondence).
  • Location: Private collection.

LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES AND DONKEYS.

  • Media: oil on canvas.
  • Dimensions: canvas 28.0 x 38.0 cm, frame 45.7 x 55.9 cm.
  • History:
    • 1901 – Signed and dated.
    • 2011 – Auctioned Bonham’s, 12 Apr, lot 842, sold (with two other works): £300, premium £360.
    • After 2011 – With vendor, Richard Taylor Fine Art, “Signed and dated lower right / Provenance. Manchester Gallery label and number verso. / Harnell and Son London Art Dealers“, sold sometime before late Aug 2021.
  • Location: ?

LANDSCAPE WITH TREES AND STONE WALL.

  • Title(s): Landscape with trees and stone wall (Wotton Auction Rooms, 2020).
  • Description: Landscape, foreground of rough grass backed by a stone wall running from left which disappears towards the centre of the picture, hidden by a dip in the slope, shrubby woody growth centre and right foreground, purple-grey hillsides background, overcast sky. Note: damage top right canvas with some paint separation/loss present at time of 2020 purchase,
  • Media: Oil on canvas (Wotton Auction Rooms, 2020).
  • Dimensions: “28.5 x 43cm approx” (Wotton Auction Rooms, 2012).
  • Signature/date/other text: “signed bottom left S Isabel Dacre” (Wotton Auction Rooms, 2012).
  • History:
    • 2012 – Auctioned Wotton Auction Rooms, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, England, 15 May, lot 577, “An early 20th century oil painting on canvas by Susan Isobel Dacre (friend of Lord Leighton), suffragette, etc showing a country landscape with trees and stonewall to the foreground, signed bottom left S Isabel Dacre, 28 x 44cm in silver coloured frame with linen slip”, passed.
    • 2020 – Auctioned Wotton Auction Rooms, 23 Sep, lot 2724, “signed,” provenance an anonymous “estate”, sold: hammer £300, premium £364.80.
  • Location: Private collection.

LANDSCAPE WITH WINDING ROAD.

  • Title(s): Landscape with winding road (this web site); Italian Landscape (Richard Taylor Fine Art).
  • Description: Rural exterior from a high viewpoint, depicting a raised area with clump of trees and single domestic building, a road with ?figures (no fine detail so unable to tell whether people, livestock or anything else) curving round it, another white building mid-distance right and pale blue hilly/mountainous far-distance, pale blue sky with clouds.
  • Media: Oil on canvas (Richard Taylor Fine Art).
  • Dimensions: Frame “120 inches by 17 inches approx” (sic), canvas 13 x 10 inches (Richard Taylor Fine Art).
  • Signature/date/other text: Indistinctly signed bottom left, “S. Dac…” (online image); “Signed lower left” (Richard Taylor Fine Art).
  • History:
    • 2011 – Auctioned Bonham’s, 12 Apr, sold with two other paintings for (premium) £360.
    • 2011 onwards – With vendor Richard Taylor Fine Art, “Tuscan Village / Signed on the right. / Provenance. Manchester Gallery label and number verso. / Harnell and Son London Art Dealers.”
  • Location: Richard Taylor Fine Art [still listed Feb 2026].

LUDLOW CASTLE.

  • Title(s): Ludlow Castle (artuk.org).
  • Description: Distant view of Ludlow Castle, partly hidden by trees, with a track running towards the castle left side of canvas on which a woman and child are standing mid-distance, housing visible on right side of canvas.
  • Media: Oil on canvas (artuk.org).
  • Dimensions: “H 50 x W 60.5 cm” (artuk.org).
  • Signature/date/other text: “S. Isabel Dacre” (visible on online image).
  • History:
    • 1908 – According to artuk.org.
    • Date? – Gifted to Southwark Art Collection, “GA0936” (artuk.org).
  • Location: Southwark Art Collection, London (artuk.org).

SAN ETENE [NO IMAGE].

  • History:
    • 1880 – “exhibited in 1880 by the Manchester Society of Women Painters, # 4 There is light and luster and shimmer” [1].

SAN MICHELE [NO IMAGE].

  • History:
    • 1880 – “exhibited in 1880 by the Manchester Society of Women Painters, # 4 There is light and luster and shimmer” [1].

SANTA MARIA DEI MONTI, PERUGIA.

  • Title(s): Santa Maria dei Monte, Perugia (labels on back of work).
  • Description: View of a large eccleciastical building in the left mid-distance, rural landscape foreground, low mountains far distance.
  • Media: Oil on canvas.
  • Dimensions: Canvas 27.8 x 37.8 cm, frame 37.8 x 48.2 cm, glass cover (information from owner).
  • Signature/date/other text: 1899 – Label on back (detailed above). Signed lower right, “S. I. Dacre”.*
  • History:
  • Location: Private collection.

SCENE WITH HAYSTACK.

  • Title(s): Scene with haystack (this web site).
  • Description: Rural scene with low rustic buildings foreground, a larger two-storey building left-centre mid-ground and a round, conically thatch-topped haystack slightly right-off-centre foreground, rolling hills in the background and bright, partly cloudy blue sky,
  • Media: ?
  • Dimensions: ?
  • Signature/date/other text: Signed “S Isabel Dacre”.
  • History:
    • 2003 – Bought by current owner (May 2025) at auction.
  • Location: Private collection.

SIENA, LOOKING TOWARDS THE CATHEDERAL (DUOMO DI SIENA).

SWANS.

  • Note: A work titled “Watching the Swans” was exhibited Manchester in 1927, amd described as ‘children gazing at swans on a lake’. It received criticism in one review, “unnecessarily large and the picture lacks unity”, although was stated in another to be “a good study of children” [1]. Swans, acquired by Manchester Art Gallery in 1927, may be a cut down portion of the aforementioned work.
  • Title(s): Swans (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Description: “Group on five swans in a river surrounded by water which is engulfed in sunlight. The shadow of the swans is silhouetted against the water. To the bottom right-hand side of the painting there is a rounded shape in light brown with a metal attachment – representing either a section of a jetty or part of a boat. The study for the painting was therefore done close to the waters edge or in a boat. The background of the painting is very dark contrasting with the sun-lit section in the middle” (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Media: Oil on canvas (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Dimensions: “framed: 8 cm (depth); 43.2 cm (height); 53.2 cm (width) / unframed: 30.5 cm (height); 40.5 cm (width)” (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Signature/date/other text: “artist’s inscription : : blc : artist’s name : S Isabel Dacre” (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • History:
    • 1927 – “purchased [by Manchester Art Gallery] from the artist, 1927” (artuk.org).
    • 1927-1928 – Exhibited “Dacre, Dodd, Wood” (Manchester Art Gallery).
  • Location: Manchester Art Gallery.

THE COURTYARD, ROME [NO IMAGE].

  • History:
    • 1882 – “exhibited in 1882 by the Manchester Society of Women Painters. A landscape shown at the Annual Exhibition in the old Town Hall.” [1].

THE PAGLIA FROM ORVIETO.

  • Title(s): The Paglia from Orvieto, Italy (artuk.org).
  • Description: A landscape with a river running across the frame foreground with a number of cultivated fields immediately behind, mid- and far-background of increasingly elevated hills and mountains, narrow strip of mainly blue sky above,
  • Media: “Oil on canvas” (artuk.org).
  • Dimensions: “H 25.4 x W 38.1 cm” (artuk.org).
  • Signature/date/other text: “S. Isabel Dacre” bottom right (visible in online image artuk.org).
  • History:
    • 1912 – “Presented [to Leeds Art Gallery] by Charles Aitken, Esq” (artuk.org).
  • Location: Leeds City Art Gallery (artuk.org).

THE ROOFS OF PERUGIA.

  • Title(s): The Roofs of Perugia (DoME, this web site); The Roofs of Perugia, Italy (artuk.org).
  • Media: oil on canvas (artuk.org).
  • Dimensions: “H 50.5 x W 61 cm” (artuk.org).
  • History:
    • 1911 – Signed and dated lower right, “S. Isabel Dacre / 1911” (artuk.org, visible in online image).
    • 1912 – Exhibited New English Art Club, Forty-seventh Exhibition of Modern Pictures, Summer 1912, no. 209 (DoME).
    • 1960 – “gift from L. M. Angus-Butterworth, through the National Art Collections Fund, 1960” (artuk.org).
  • Location: Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry (artuk.org).

THE WALLS OF SIENA.

WETHERLAM FROM LITTLE LANGDALE.

  • Title(s): Wetherlam from Little Langdale (The Guardian, 21 Mar 1925).
  • Description: Only known from black-and-white newspaper image showing a country lane with trees to the right extending to the top frame, background of hill/mountain tops, sky occupying upper third of work.
  • Media: ?
  • Dimensions: ?
  • Signature/date/other text: ?
  • History:
    • 1925 – Illustrated in The Guardian, 21 Mar, “… by Miss S. Isabel Dacre, the president of the Attic Club, which holds its annual exhibition in Manchester next week.”
  • Location: ?

WORKS LISTED BY DATE.

WORKS LISTED BY LOCATION (PUBLIC COLLECTIONS).

MANCHESTER ART GALLERY.

MANCHESTER TOWN HALL.

SALFORD MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY.

LEEDS MUSEUM AND GALLERIES.

HERBERT ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM, COVENTRY.

SOUTHWARK HERITAGE CENTRE, LONDON.

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