Young Woman, Phyllis Woolner (1875 - 1946) on a Terrace giving Grapes to a Cockatoo
Winifred (Freda) Nest Hansard, Mrs Cecil Mallabey Firth (1871 - 1937)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1900 (exh at RA) - 1901 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
900 x 600 mm
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Bradley Manor, Devon
NT 830848
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Young Woman, Phyllis Woolner (1875- 1946), on a Terrace giving Grapes to a Cockatoo by Winifred ('Freda') Nest Hansard, Mrs Cecil Firth (1871 - 1937), exhibited at RA, 1900, signed and dated 1901. A portrait of Phyllis Woolner, daughter of the sculptor, Thomas Woolner RA (Hadleigh 1825 - London 1892) and Alice Gertrude Waugh (1845- 192) (see Hughes's portrait at Bradley Manor [NT]) and also an artist (see Wightwick Manor, NT 1288960). She is seated in a landscape, in profile, on a stone ledge, wearing a large floral white dress with a white cockatoo flying in towards her from the right.
Provenance
By descent to Diana Helen Firth, Mrs Sandy Woolner (1908 - 1999) until accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Trust, Bradley Manor, 2002
Credit line
Bradley Manor, The Woolner Collection (accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of Inheritance Tax and transferred to The National Trust in 2002)
Makers and roles
Winifred (Freda) Nest Hansard, Mrs Cecil Mallabey Firth (1871 - 1937), artist