Bertha King (Later Bertha Everard) (South African) (1873-196...

Hammer

£300

Bertha King (Later Bertha Everard) (South African) (1873-1965) 'Making Daisy Chains' Oil on canvas Signed 32.5cms x 22cm Biographical Note: Born in Durban, South Africa, Bertha King trained initially as a concert pianist in Vienna but later studied painting at the Slade and Westminster art schools in London and the St. Ives School of Landscape in Cornwall. She began teaching at the Staats Model School in Pretoria in 1902, but after marrying Charles Everard in 1903, moved with him to Bonnefoi, a small trading post on the Eastern Transvaal escarpment near Carolina. She signed the Granville letter from artists protesting against impending re-developments in St. Ives in 1898, and Whybrow notes her presence in the St. Ives colony, indicated by one title being 'Fishing Boats, St. Ives.'

This oil is in good original condition. It would benefit from a clean and it is not flat, having been transferred to another stretcher of a slightly different size to the original (this was done perhaps 50 years ago)