Image: donated by owner.

• Note: Still Raining exhibited Manchester Art Gallery #94, 1927, may also be this work.
• 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 (niece of S. Isabel Dacre) (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).
• Location: ?

The artist sends work the most unmistakably, up to her best. In its reticence, its’ cleaving to things that matter, and its refusal to thump the table even over things that do matter, it is as powerful as almost anything in the exhibition. (Source? Presumed to be from newspaper of the time, c/o private correspondence.)

“An ordinary, common-place, middle-class interior. A girl, wholesome, comely, but in nowise distinguished, in a brick-red dress, with a broad lace collar, her hand on the narrow window sill. Through the casement, dull grey watery daylight … a steadfast and self-reliant face, and an admirably broad study of diffused light in an interior” (The Manchester City News, 22 Sep 1906, p2 col 6).

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Special thanks to Mike Stewart for information regarding this work.

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