Beschreibung:

oil on canvas, signed framed image size 84cm x 59cm, overall size 160cm x 90cm Provenance: exhibited Edinburgh, The Royal Scottish Academy, 1909, no.189 (as "Mrs. T. B. Bury") and E A Walton’s Memorial Exhibition, Edinburgh and Glasgow 1924. Literature: Edward Arthur Walton by Fiona MacSporran Page 91 Plate 70. Note: Jane Bury was married to J. B. Bury Esq., Regius Professor of Modern History, Cambridge. From 1902 they took a holiday cottage at 9 Park Lane, Southwold, where they made friends with the artist. In addition to painting her portrait, he also made an oil sketch of their cottage, now in the Southwold Museum. This portrait was also exhibited at the Walton Memorial Exhibition at the Royal Academy (London) in 1924. The painting has strong influences of Whistler, particularly in the panache of the dress.