Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1920s.
It is painted with Paice's characteristic broad brush strokes, and, in the treatment of the dress fabric, there is a painterly delight in the bravura brushwork.
PHILIP STUART PAICE (1884-1940) "Painted highly competent portraits" (Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920).
Paice was born in London, son of the artist George Paice. Awarded a Landseer Scholarship, he studied at Heatherleys and the Royal Academy Schools from 1905 to 10. He was Art Master at Denver, Colorado, USA and then at The Birkenhead Institute. He exhibited once at the Royal Academy, 20 times at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and 23 times at the Royal Cambrian Academy. At the time of his death he was living in Cheshire.
SIZE: 29 x 24.25 inches including the frame.
PROVENANCE: Wiltshire Private Collection.
Verso: Trade label for Garve Hessenberg BA of Oxford, conservator.
Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1920s.
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Portrait of a Young Lady; Attributed to Philip Stuart Paice.
