WORKS KNOWN BY DESCRIPTION ONLY.

  • A DAUGHTER OF EVE.
    • Little girl in blue pinafore and pink sun bonnet. [Exhibited Grosvenor Gallery, 1886.]
  • AT THE FOUNTAIN – EARLY MORNING, CARRARA.
    • Barefooted and red-skirted girl drawing water. [New Gallery, 1892.]
  • EVENING LANDSCAPE.
  • MID-SUMMER.
    • Rustic girl in a field; rich red hair, in reddish-brown print frock and dark shawl, with necklace of buttercups. An elder-tree in flower and strip of red dock-seed form accessories. [New Gallery catalogue, 1892.]
  • PARCÆ.
    • Three Cornish girls, with skein of wool, one in bright red dress; half length, nearly life-size. [New Gallery catalogue, 1888.]
    • … three fisher girls winding wool at a quayside … against a mass of houses darkly purpling up against an evening sky. [The Queen (newspaper), 5 Mar 1890.]
  • WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXHIBITION, CHICAGO, 5 May – 31 Oct 1893 (see also Biographical Notes page).
    • Murals:
      • Mother and Child.
      • Youth Tending Age.
      • Florence Nightingale.
    • [The Englishwoman’s Review of Social and Industrial Questions, v24, p132-3] Three life-sized mural paintings have been executed by Mrs. Swynnerton, for the walls of one of the vestibules of the Women’s Building at Chicago. The subject is Nursing, treated under three very different aspects. The first and third pertain to what one may call the gentle and natural aspects of nursing: “Mother and child” – a madonna-like figure with a young child on her knee – and “Youth tending Age,” – a sweet graceful girl looking up with deferential affection to a gentle, yet stately old lady, seated amid rose trees. The central panel represents the conception of nursing in its terrible, and so to say militant, aspect. The interest centres on the tall, slender figure of Florence Nightingale, as, candle in hand, she makes the round of her wards in the Crimean Hospital, the wounded soldiers in rows to the right and to the left. Yet painful as the subject sounds, the genius of the artist has succeeded in drawing the thoughts of the beholder to the beneficent rather than the ghastly associations of the scene. All three pictures show remarkable breadth and vigour of treatment, and it is perfectly astonishing to hear that, though the figures are life size, they were begun on February 3rd, and packed for Chicago on March 31st. [p258] MEDALS HAVE BEEN AWARDED … In oils … Mrs. Anne Merritt, Mrs. Adrian Stokes, Mrs. Stanhope Forbes, Miss Clara Montalba, Mrs. Swynnerton, Mrs. Alma Tadema, Miss E. Stewart Wood, Lady Butler.

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