Winifred Marie Louise Austen (1876-1964)

Tufted Duck taking off from the shore in Winter

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Winifred Marie Louise Austen (1876-1964)
Tufted Duck taking off from the shore in Winter
signed with devices (lower right) and inscribed '"TUFTED DUCKS IN THE/ESTUARY"/by/Winifred Austen.' (on a label attached to the backing)
pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of white and scratching out
9½ x 13½in. (24.1 x 34.3cm.)

Lot Essay

Austen illustrated a number of ornithological books, the most famous being Patrick Chalmer's Birds, Ashore and Aforeshore, 1935. She exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1899, as well as at the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers and the Society of Women Artists.

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