Edwardian Oil Portrait by W.j.o.billinge

A fine oil on canvas portrait, dating to the Edwardian period, of the Industrialist and Yatchsman Myles Burton Kennedy (1862 to 1928) by Winifred Joan Ophelia Billinge, signed and dated 1909. The portrait is typical of the period with the sitter smartly dress and looking slightly to the right. The painting is in excellent condition and ready to hang. The portrait is mounted in the original gilt wood frame which has some rubbing to the gilding giving it a great look of age.

Overall sizes in inches including frame:

20 1/2 by 24 1/2

Winifred Joan Ophelia Gordon Bell (neé Billinge) studied animal painting with William Frank Calderon, winning the school scholarship in 1904. She then took figure drawing with Edwin Noble and later held various teaching posts including that of a visiting lecturer at Leamington School of Art.

She took commissions for animal paintings and her clients included HM Queen Alexandra, Lady Moyra Cavendish and other titled names in London society, her animal portraits are extremely desirable. Her husband was F Lawrence Bell and their daughter was Ophelia Gordon Bell, wife of William Heaton Cooper.

She moved to Windermere in 1942 and was elected to the Lake Artists’ Society, contributing over 80 animal pictures to their exhibitions over 20 years.

The sitter in the protrait Myles Burton Kennedy (1862–1928) was a Furness ironmaster, proprietor of Roanhead mines and chairman of the North Lonsdale Iron & Steel Co. He was an extremely accomplished Yatchsman.

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