Modern British & Irish Art
Modern British & Irish Art
Property from the Swinton Family Collection
Sir William Orpen R.A., R.H.A.
The Swinton Family
Auction Closed
November 23, 03:04 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Swinton Family Collection
Sir William Orpen, R.A., R.H.A.
1878 - 1931
The Swinton Family
signed William Orpen and dated 1901 (lower right)
oil on canvas
unframed: 112 by 150cm.; 44 by 59in.
framed: 119 by 157cm.; 47 by 62in.
Executed in 1901.
We are grateful to Kenneth McConkey for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
George Sitwell Campbell Swinton and thence by family descent to the present owners
‘Celebrities at Home, Mrs George Swinton at 36 Pont Street’, The World, 19 February 1908
P.G. Konody and Sidney Dark, Sir William Orpen, Artist and Man, Seeley, Service & Co, 1932, pp. 146, 199, 265
Bruce Arnold, Orpen, Mirror to an Age, Jonathan Cape, 1981, illustrated p. 97
David Greer, A Numerous and Fashionable Audience, The Story of Elsie Swinton, Thames Publishing, 1997, pp. 62-3, 98
P.G. Konody and Sidney Dark, Sir William Orpen, Artist and Man, Seeley, Service & Co, 1932, pp. 146, 199, 265
Bruce Arnold, Orpen, Mirror to an Age, Jonathan Cape, 1981, illustrated p. 97
David Greer, A Numerous and Fashionable Audience, The Story of Elsie Swinton, Thames Publishing, 1997, pp. 62-3, 98
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Winter Exhibition, 1933 (possibly, ex-catalogue)