See also Portrait of David and Jonathan Fenwick and Portrait of Violet Edith Fenwick / On the Terrace.

Image: www.medici.co.uk.

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• Title(s): Portrait of Charles Fenwick (this web site); Charles Fenwick (www.medici.co.uk); Master Charles Fenwick (Royal Academy – Summer Exhibition catalogue, 1908; The Standard [newspaper], 4 May 1908, p4).
• Description: Full length portrait of a boy in a broad-brimmed hat, dark jacket and red neck tie, clutching something by his left hip, a dog by his left leg, a building with gothic door and window on the left, background of grassy open area backed by well-grown trees.
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• History:
  • 1908 – Exhibited Royal Academy – Summer Exhibition, no. 885 (catalogue; The Standard, 4 May 1908).
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Mrs. Swynnerton, in an open-air portrait of a boy, “Master Charles Fenwick,” has tried to combine the methods of the realist and the impressionist; the boy is solid, but his dog is a phantom; the church behind him seems to waver in the breeze, and spectral flowers grow beside its porch. Thus the experiment is not a success, despite the ability wasted on it.

The Standard, 4 May 1908, p4.

Image known only from commercial artwork reproduction web sites, e.g. www.medici.co.uk.

Fenwick family tree (www.prestonherts.co.uk):

• Herbert George Fenwick (1870-1937) = married 1901, divorced 1917 = Violet Edith Perkins (1875-1972),
  • Charles Fenwick (1896 – 1912/1913). Drowned in a fishing accident while on holiday in Norway.
  • David Fenwick (1910 [- 1982]).
  • Jonathan Fenwick (1911 [- 1999]).
  • Rachel Harding (1913 [- 2006]).

There are some notes on the Fenwick family at A History of Preston in Hertfordshire web page.

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