The view is of the Duomo di Siena (Siena Cathederal) from the NNW. Both Annie and Susan painted similar scenes. Annie’s version is undated, but the similarity between the two suggests they might be contemporaneous. Annie’s version (left) is from a lower viewpoint, closer to the cathederal and a little to the east of where …
Tag: 1880s
THRO’ THE ORCHARD.
Photos: Jonathan Russell. From the catalogue to the Woman's Exhibition, 1900, Earl's Court, London, pp16-17: "The many pictures and sketches by which [Mrs. Swynnerton] is represented are distinguished by a masculine largeness that is rarely to be noted in a woman's work. She has almost a sculptor's sense of mass and love of ample form, …
