Portrait of Maude Moore, head-and-shoulders, in a pink dress with white shawl

Details

Sir Frank (Francis Bernard) Dicksee, P.R.A. (1853-1928)
Portrait of Maude Moore, head-and-shoulders, in a pink dress with white shawl
signed with initials and dated '1913' (lower left)
oil on panel
16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm.)

Provenance

Maude Sutton Palmer (née Moore), thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

Maude Moore married the artist Harry Sutton Palmer and was the mother of Camille Sutton Palmer. Palmer exhibited at the Royal Academy from the age of 16, initially showing still lifes, but later he turning to landscape painting in watercolour, inspired particularly by David Cox, William Muller and Peter de Wint. From 1904 he worked as regular illustrator of the A & C Black Colour Plate Books, starting with A.R.H. Moncrieff's Bonnie Scotland.

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