Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1950s.
Boreel was born in France in 1886 to an American mother and a Dutch diplomat father. She came to live in England when her father was posted to London. The family had a home on Tite Street, just up the road from Oscar Wilde’s house.
B. Yeates, Thomas Hardy and Roger Fry. Wendela studied at the Slade School of Art, and attended Walter Sickert’s evening classes. As her outstanding talent manifested itself, she soon became Sickert's protegé and assistant. Boreel's first solo exhibition was in 1919 at Walker's Gallery, and she would subsequently exhibit at the New English Art Club, the Allied Artist’s Association, and the London Group.
Signed at the lower left, the oil on hardboard presented here measures 32 x 39.5 cm at sight. On the verso, a discarded sketch by the artist. The overall size of the painting is 41.4 x 48.5 cm.
Works by Wendela Boreel are held in the Government Art Collection, the V&A Museum as well as in the British Museum in the UK. The Museum of Modern Art MOMA in New York also possesses a work by her. For further information on the artist, please request the Skippings Fine Art Summer newsletter, which is dedicated to Wendela Boreel and her work.
Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1950s.
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