Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1940s.
Born in France in 1886 to an American mother and a Dutch diplomat father, Wendela Boreel 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. Wendela became friends with her neighbour, the patron of the arts Frank Schuster, and moved in the circles of John Singer Sargent, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Elgar, W.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. Her 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 with the London Group.
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 Newsletter No 13, which was dedicated to Wendela Boreel and her work. Two further works by the artist are still available.
The watercolour presented here dates from the 1940s and is signed at the lower left. It is in fact double-sided, with a second painting of same flowers on the verso - so the sides could be reversed.
Measuring 38 x 28 cm at sight at sight under the mat, the overall framed size is 54 x 44 cm.
Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1940s.
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The Sun Filled Room: Red Poppies, Books and Bookshelf: Floral Still Life in an Interior Watercolour on Paper by Wendela Boreel
