William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1900s.
Title: 'Young girl outside a cottage, Runswick Bay' Ivy Cottage & Jubilee Cottage
Medium: Watercolour.
Size: 11.5'' x 8.25'' (unframed size in inches)
Overall size: 20'' x 16.25''
Unsigned. Circa 1901.
An exceptionally charming watercolour painted prior to her marriage in 1902. The cottages are hardly unchanged today.
Hannah Mayor (nee Hoyland) (1871-1947)
Born in Sheffield and studied in London at the Royal Female School of Art and at the Westminster School of Art, where she was, again, a star pupil. Queen Victoria made a visit to the Westminster School and bought the flower picture on which Hannah was working at the time. During her twenties she continued to develop her artistic talents and her painting were regularly accepted at major exhibitions. She returned to Yorkshire and soon joined the artists’ colony in Staithes.
In these early days she painted landscapes, genre scenes and flower subjects in both oils and watercolours. She was a very popular member of The Staithes Group and a founder member of the Staithes Art Club with the two other female artists, Laura Knight and Isa Jobling. At Staithes she began working alongside Fred Mayor, also a founder Member of The Staithes Group and Staithes Art Club. He was a family friend with whom she fell in love. Though Fred was much liked by Hannah’s family, her father did not consider a penniless artist as a suitable husband for his daughter, and flatly refused his permission for them to marry. Shortly after her thirty-first birthday, Hannah and Fred decided to elope and were married at a London church in 1902.
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William Greenwood Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1900s.
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Staithes Artist Hannah Mayor."runswick Bay" Ivy Cottage & Jubilee Cottage