William Morris Antiques has dated this piece to the 1920s.
Artist: Frank W Caldereon (he also signed sometimes as William Frank Caldereon)
William Frank Calderon aka W.
He was the third son of the painter and Keeper of the Royal Academy in London, Philip Hermogenes Calderon and was married (in 1892) to Ethel Wells Armstead (b. 1864), third daughter of the noted sculptor Henry Hugh Armstead, RA.
When fourteen, Calderon was awarded the Trevelyan Goodall Scholarship and later a scholarship to the Slade School under Professor Alphonse Legros. He and Charles Edward Johnson, a landscape artist, started the School of Animal Painting[1] at 54 Baker Street, London in April 1895;[2] Calderon acted as principal until 1916. Some of their students were Cecil Aldin, Lionel Edwards, Alfred Munnings, Lady Helena Gleichen, Frederic Whiting and George E. Studdy. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1881–1921, and had his first Royal Academy painting bought by Queen Victoria.
The Painting is of Rose Mary Budd b. Dec. 1893 d.July 1949 - and was exhibited at the Royal Academy
Rose Mary Budd was born in Bristol and was a student at the Royal Academy of Music around 1912/1914, where she studied singing together with her best friend Dame Eva Turner. It was at this time when she met her first husband - Kenriques Crosby - who was studying at the School of Mining. .During the First World War he was in the Royal Engineers based in Dover. They married after the war and they returned to his home in South Africa where they owned gold mines. She wasn't used to the type of life in South Africa and she returned home to England in the 1920's. In about 1939 Rose Mary married John Wentworth-Smith, they lived in Hove. John Wentworth-Smith was a prominent member of the society and was a personal friend of the Duke of Connaught, the son of Queen Victoria.
William Morris Antiques has dated this piece to the 1920s.
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Portrait of a Lady by William Frank Caldereon (1865 – 21 April 1943)