£220
Millicent Lisle WOODFORDE (1880-1923) Portraiture, circa 1906 Four oils on canvas, one signed and dated 1906, the largest measures 90 x 75cm, the smallest 68 x 48cm, unstretched Provenance - the vendor is the artist's great-nephew, the works were discovered in the attic of his mother's house. Catalogue Note - Millicent Lisle Woodforde, painter and illustrator, is known for her 1910 portrait of friend and composer Gustav Holst, at work in his composing room at St. Paul’s Girls’ School and now displayed in the National Portrait Gallery. Her other notable works include a painting of the staircase at 10 Barnes Terrace, London—Holst’s residence from 1910 to 1913—held at the Orleans House Gallery, a portrait of Isobel Holst sold at auction for a hammer price of £3,600 in 2016 and a portrait of Isobel Holst held at The Wilson, Cheltenham. Woodforde studied at Herkomer’s Art School, Hertfordshire in 1900 and later at Académies Colarossi and Grande Chaumière in Paris between 1904 and 1905. Woodforde illustrated Monsieur, Madame, and Bébé by Gustave Droz amongst other books.
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