“McEvoy excelled when painting the great, the good and the glamourous and had a penchant for rebellious young women whose defiance he could ineffably translate onto canvas. Phyllis was one such woman. Her name features prominently in diaries from the period which comment on her fondness for fashion and her daring disregard for the entrenched…
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Cedric Morris: Winter Flowers
“Each flower is imbued with a distinct personality, which is so well observed that horticulturalists can identify the exact species depicted by Morris in his flower paintings. In this still life, two tall Ornithogalum saundersiae tower over the composition, competing only with a few green iris seed pods. A dark blue Salvia and lighter purple…
Philip de Laszlo: The Golden Guinness Girl
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Paul Delaroche: Fake or Fortune?
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Without Hands: Sarah Biffin II
Click here to listen to artist Alison Lapper and portrait miniatures specialist Emma Rutherford discussing the art of Sarah Biffin on the eve of the opening of “Without Hands”: The Art of Sarah Biffin. The exhibition is dedicated to the life and artistic achievemtns of this remarkable artist and is accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue as well…
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst: The War Widow (1923)
This painting was originally titled Andromache by the artist when it was painted in circa 1923 [fig. 1]. This initial title references the Greek princess recorded in Homer’s Iliad, who lost every male member of her family during the Trojan War. This portrait, painted in the aftermath of the Second World War, consequently assumes a…
Cedric Morris: May Flowering Irises No. 2 (1935)
“By 1935, when this work was painted, Morris’s fascination with irises had firmly taken hold. He established a studio in the garden where he would sit and paint his flower subjects for days on end, and one ex-student, Joan Warburton, poignantly reminisced how ‘to go in there quietly when Cedric was painting the favourite of…
At Sunnyside - Where Truth and Beauty Meet 