Doreen Albinia De Burgh Gibbs (1913-2008), aged 4
William Robert Symonds (Yoxford 1851 - 1934)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1917 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1120 x 900 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 11287
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Doreen Albinia De Burgh Gibbs (1913-2008), aged 4, by William Robert Symonds (Yoxford 1851 - 1934), signed and dated bottom right hand corner, 1917. Inspired by the Age of Innocence, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1788, in Tate Britain. A portrait of a little girl, facing, in a white dress and a ribbon in her short hair, sitting barefoot on the ground, holding a posy of flowers, turned to the left, with hands over the chest, the light falling across her and with a silvery tree behind.
Provenance
Owned by the sitter and thence by descent to her grandson, from whom loaned to Tyntesfield
Makers and roles
William Robert Symonds (Yoxford 1851 - 1934), artist