VIEW ALONG A GARDEN PATH.

Images: Woolley and Wallace.

  • Title(s): View along a garden path (this web site); View along a garden path with a mountain in the distance (Woolley and Wallace, May & Dec 2022).
  • Description: Rough oil sketch of a garden with pink flowers bordering a green path which leads to an open gateway with small trees either side, a broad hill descending steeply to the left indicated behind.
  • Media: Oil on canvas (Woolley and Wallace, Dec 2022).
  • Dimensions: 41 x 51 cm (Woolley and Wallace, Dec 2022).
  • Signature/date/other text: “Indistinctly signed and inscribed To Lady L**rs from An S****ton (to stretcher)” (Woolley and Wallace, Dec 2022).
  • History:
    • 2022 – Auctioned Woolley and Wallace, Salisbury, 31 May, lot 108, “View along a garden path with a mountain in the distance”, passed.
    • 2022 – Auctioned Woolley and Wallace, Salisbury, 14 Dec [dead link; archive.org], lot 161, “41 x 51 cm / Attributed to Annie Swynnerton (1844-1933) / View along a garden path with a mountain in the distance / Indistinctly signed and inscribed To Lady L**rs from An S****ton (to stretcher)”, sold: hammer £220.
  • Location: ?

Although ‘attributed’ in the auction catalogue, the signature is similar to others of Annie’s. A note on the back reads, “Annie Swynnerton / 1st woman RA / of view … park of Rottingdean”.

Ernest Alden, the name on another label, was a well known frame-maker.

Note: Rottingdean was the home of Annie’s friend and champion Edward Burne-Jones and his wife Georgiana from 1880 onwards. The latter became Lady Burne-Jones in 1894, or just Lady Jones (the surname was not originally hyphenated), so I do wonder if the dedication on the back could actually be “To Lady Jones from An[nie]”, but the inscription is difficult to read. The auction house reads it as “To Lady L**rs” (Jonathan Russell, web site author).

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