Images: donated by owner.

• Title(s): “Where tides of grass break into foam of flowers” Swinburne (1923 exhibition catalogue).
• Description: Landscape with river, distant hills and many yellow flowers. two crudely sketched figures at water’s edge on left.
• Media: oil on canvas (private communication).
• Dimensions: 47.0 x 73.5 cm (reference?).
• Signature/date/other text: “The name “Annie Swynnerton” is written on the back of the frame (does not appear to be Annie’s own handwriting)” (private communication).
• History:
  • Date? – c. 1920 by similarity to Flowers in a meadow, which itself may shortly predate the Equestrian portrait of Lady Mercy Greville)?
  • 1923 – Exhibited Manchester (visible in 1923 exhibition photo), no. 2, “Where tides of grass break into foam of flowers … Painted in Hampshire … Lent by Miss F. R. Wilkinson” (Fanny Rollo Wilkinson).
• Location: private collection (private communication).

Owned by horticulultarist, suffrage campaigner and relative of women’s rights campaigner Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Fanny Rollo Wilkinson (1855-1951). Fanny donated two paintings to Manchester Art Gallery, The Dreamer and The Olive Gatherers, in 1936. In her later years, Fanny lived in Snape, Suffolk, where the current owner bought the picture c. 1995. This picture could have therefore have been in Fanny’s possession at the time of her death, remaining in the village until it found its way into the local shop where the current owner bought it.

Visible at the bottom right-hand corner in a photo taken at the 1923 exhibition of Annie’s works:

The light area at the bottom left of the black-and-white image is a blemish on the original photograph, not part of the painting. The current frame also appears to also be the same as in the 1923 photo.

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The current owner also has Blue Seascape, and comments how similar the two are in execution and canvas. Many thanks to them for communications regarding these two works.

Page last updated 8 Jun 2025.