£2,800
GEORGE SPENCER WATSON ROI, RP, ARA,RA (1869-1934). Portrait of Lillian Gardiner (Mrs Jack Allen) half-length, wearing a velvet grey cape with fur cuffs and muff, with silk scarf to head and pendant earrings, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in
Dateable to 1913
Provenance: The Artist's family, by descent.
Exhibited: Dorset County Museum, Dorchester: Southampton Art Gallery, Sept 1981-Jan 1982 no.11
Lillian Gardiner was the sister of Hilda, the artist's wife.
A correspondent in the Morning Post after the artist's death wrote of Spencer Watson's portraits that 'his best works were in a somewhat severe convention, incisively drawn and modelled with continuous gradations with blacks and greys predominating in the colour scheme. He had the gift of making his sitters look well bred...'
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