Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1930s.
A superb and insightful portrait of a young woman, relaxed and lost in thought.
FLORA LION 1876–1958
Portrait, landscape and genre painter and lithographer.
Born 3 December 1878 in London of an English father and a French mother; married Ralph P. Amato, who adopted her name, in 1915. Studied at St John's Wood School of Art 1894, the R.A. Schools under Sargent, Clausen, Solomon J. Solomon and Arthur Hacker 1895–9, and at the Académie Julian in Paris under J.-P. Laurens 1899–1900.
Member of the R.O.I. 1909, the National Portrait Society 1910 and the R.P. 1911; exhibited at the R.A. from 1900. Awarded the Silver Medal of the Société des Artistes Français 1921 and the Gold Medal 1949. Died in London 15 May 1958.
Among her later commissions were a group portrait of a young Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Duchess of York flanked by two cousins; a portrait of the wife of the Spanish ambassador, for which she received the Silver Medal, 1921, from the Société des Artistes Francais; the suffragette Flora Drummond (1936); the celebrated conductor Sir Henry Joseph Wood (1937); and, a second time in 1940, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, by then queen-consort to King George VI.
She received the Gold Medal from the Société des Artistes Francais in 1949.
Her work is in the National Portrait Gallery, the Tate Gallery and others.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, "The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture", London 1964.
SIZE: 30 x 25 inches unframed.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, an East Anglian Elizabethan country house.
Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1930s.
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