Photos: Jonathan Russell. Count Zubov (Comte Valentin Platonovič Zubov, Валентин Платонович Зубов, 1884-1969) was a Russian aristocrat and art historian. Aged about 25, he spent the winter of 1908-9 in Italy and where Annie painted this portrait at Salsomaggiore Terme, a town in northern Italy. Zubov founded the Russian Institute of Art History in 1912. …
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CAPRI.
The scene is the Marina Grande, on the northern side of the Italian island of Capri. Annie Swynnerton: "Once, at Capri, sat on a rock in mid-stream every day for three weeks to get the motion of water in sunlight." (Notice by picture while on display at Manchester Art Gallery, 2018-9.) Media: oil on canvas. …
ANNIE LOUISA SWYNNERTON (1844-1933) 