Westcoast Fine Art has dated this Frank Moss Bennett Portrait to the 1930s.
Title: Portrait Sketch of a Young Lady
Provenance: From a UK collection
Faintly signed
Medium: Oil on canvas
Measurements: Overall measures 51 cm x 42 cm x 4 cm and thepainting itself measures 41.5 cm x 33 cm
Indistinct signature
Inscribed to verso on canvas “sketch F.M Bennett”
Inscribed to verso on top stretcher bar “Frank Moss Bennett”
followed by an address
He began his training in 1892 at Slade School of Art in London and finished his education at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Bennett won a gold medal from the Royal Academy for a lithograph he created in 1899 titled “Ladas the Greek runner falling dead as he goes to receive his crown of olives at Olympia”
Bennett is best known for his Elizabethan subjects, many of which became well known through calendars and other forms of popular reproduction. He is also known for his portraits of soldiers killed in World War I, usually commissioned by their grieving relatives.
The present work is a sketch for a portrait of a young lady in typical period attire. It is executed within a painted oval border and shows lovely tonality.
Condition report: In good clean condition. Some old areas of light abrasion. Canvas is in good serviceable condition and reasonable tension. Slight impression of the stretcher bars only noticeable in artificial light.
Westcoast Fine Art has dated this Frank Moss Bennett Portrait to the 1930s.
Westcoast fine art ltd is a UK based dealer in fine classical works of art.
You can view the stock and full dealer information on the Westcoast Fine Art Profile Page
Portrait Sketch of a Young Lady, Frank Moss Bennett (1874-1952)
