Image: donated by owner.

• Title(s): Portrait of a young woman seated at a round table.
• Description: An interior, a young woman seated left side of picture at a round table, the table with single pillar stand and shiny top, her hands on a book and a small vase of white flowers and other items on the far side of the table, simple dull blue dress, long dark red/brown hair, the woman’s face turned towards the viewer, red curtains behind partly open to show window frame, daylight and leafy exterior.
• Media: “oil painting” (Manchester Guardian, 14 May 1927).
• Dimensions: ?
• Date/signature/other text: ?
• History:
  • “[painting] by Miss Isabel Dacre president of the Attic Club (Manchester Society of Women Artists) included in the exhibition of the society’s work now held in Manchester” (Manchester Guardian, 14 May 1927).
  • Subject may be Susan (aged c. 12), daughter of Susan Isabel Dacre’s brother, William (private correspondence).
  • “Passed down through extended family until acquired by current owner” (private correspondence).
• Location: private collection.

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Thanks to Mike Stewart for information on this work.

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