Radnorshire Fine Arts Ltd has dated this Framed Tempera Still Life to the 1940s.
Tempera, painted on primed plywood. Signed by the artist: Irene Pownoll Williams (lower left).
Exhibited at the New English Art Club priced £15.15 : and the Russell Cotes Art Gallery, Bournemouth, “Contemporary Tempera” 1942.
Central to the image is a colourful painting of an arrangement of flowers nestled between a collar of lace in a jug. The jug is standing in the centre of the picture next to a green glass scent bottle and a fancy white glove, framed between two lace curtains.
Painting: 13 1/8 x 12 3/4 in. (33.5 x 32.5 cm.)
Frame: 17 1/2 x 17 1/4 in. (44.5 x 43.5 cm.)
Irene Williams was a portrait and landscape painter and daughter of the artist Toker Pownoll Williams (1872-97). She studied at Bath school of Arts and Crafts and was on the staff of Cheltenham School of Art. Irene exhibited 6 works including tempera paintings at the Royal Academy between 1928-38, she also exhibited at the New English Art Club, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, the Royal Society of Artists, Birmingham, and the Cooling & Sons Gallery in Bond Street, London.
Tempera can survive the passage of time better than oil paintings – this is especially the case with early Italian egg tempera, which is usually characterised by an almost enamelled appearance. In the 20th century however, egg tempera was often only lightly bound (resulting in a chalky quality), closer in character to watercolour.
Radnorshire Fine Arts Ltd has dated this Framed Tempera Still Life to the 1940s.
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Still Life Tempera Painting on Panel by Irene Christobelle Pownoll Williams C.1942
