Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1920s.
There is a theatrical as well as a society air to this beautiful portrait of the 1920s.
Verso is in a more modern label which gives the name of a former owner, Patricia Dunham.
This is a superb portrait, painted with all the 'brio' you would expect from Dugdale, yet extremely sensitive in its characterisation of the sitter. This painting is absolutely redolent of its period.
THOMAS CANTRELLE DUGDALE RA (1880-1952) had a flourishing career as a society portrait painter and in the National Portrait Gallery there is his painting of the young actress Wendy Hillier, in strident pose, wearing jodhpurs and open shirt. Recently another of his portraits, of the actress Jessie Matthews is believed to have been purchased by Andrew Lloyd Weber.
Dugdale's work is also in the Tate, Courtauld Istitute of Art, Manchester City Art Gallery and other collections.
SIZE: 41 x 33 inches inc. frame.
PROVENANCE:
Painted for the Dunham family and in their possession until sold some years ago. In the family it was known as "The Roaring 20's"; the sitter's name seems to be lost.
{information from Martyn Dunham, great great nephew of TC Dugdale.)
A private collection in an East Anglian Elizabethan country house.
Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1920s.
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Sold....portrait of a Lady 1920s, by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
