#early 20th century british art

[thepaintedroom]

William Rothenstein (British/English, 1872–1945) • The Browning Readers • 1900 • Bradford Museums and Galleries, UK

[larobeblanche]

Frank Dicksee (British/English, 1853-1928) • Dorothy, the artist's niece • 1917 • Private collection

[pagansphinx]

Edward John Gregory (British, 1851-1909) • Apres? • 1900 • Royal Academy of Arts

[collectionstilllife]

Stanley Cursiter (British, Scottish – 1887-1976) • Red Lacquer • 1922 • Orkney Museum, Orkney Islands, Scotland

[resplendentoutfit]

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925) • Mrs. Abbott Lawrence Rotch • 1903 • Private collection

Dress Credit: Callot Soeurs (French, active 1895–1937), Evening dress, about 1900, silk, chiffon, and linen lace • Private collection

Viewing both the portrait and the photograph of the dress offers a distinct occasion to consider the artist, the subject, the dynamics of portraiture, and the culture of the time period during which both portrait and garment were produced. Now on view, the elegant blue and white evening dress designed by the Parisian couturier Callot Soeurs at the turn of the twentieth century and worn by Mrs. Abbott Lawrence Rotch for her portrait by John Singer Sargent. The premier international portraitist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Sargent flourished as a painter to the English upper class.

[eirene]

The Garden of Eden, 1901

Hugh Goldwin Riviere

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) "Jason and Medea" (1907) Oil on canvas Pre-Raphaelite Currently in a private collection

[escapismsworld]

Arthurian Knight, by Charles Ernest Butler (British, 1864–1933), 1903

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (British, 1872–1945) • The Little Foot-Page • 1905 • Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England

The work is based on the story of Burd Helen, a tragic heroine from Scottish balladry, who dressed as a boy page to follow her cruel lover on foot while he rode on horseback. After bearing him a child, she was finally acknowledged by him and they married. Here she is shown secretly doffing her female attire and cutting her long hair, in preparation for her journey. Within a few years of the exhibition, modern female art students were cutting their hair in "page boy" style.

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Sir Frank Dicksee, "Portrait of Mrs. W. K. D'arcy" (detail) (1902)

crop by artthetc

[thepaintedroom]

William Orpen (British/Irish, 1878-1931) • Window in London • 1901 • National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

[larobeblanche]

Walter Bonner Gash (British, 1869-1928) • New Book • c. 1912

[pagansphinx]

Oswald Birley (British, 1880–1952) • The Green Masque (Rhoda Birley, (1900–1981) • 1922 • The artist's estate

[collectionstilllife]

Augustus John (British, 1878-1961) • Blue Cinerariac • 1928 • Tate, Britain

[desimonewayland]

Mark Gertler

The Artist’s Brother Harry Holding an Apple, 1913

Oil paint and tempera on wooden panel

Tate

[eirene]

An Enchanted Evening, Venice Thomas Edwin Mostyn