Seascape
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About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2 Marsham Street
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About the artist
Born in Edinburgh, Ethel Walker studied at Westminster and the Slade. In 1900 Walker was elected the first woman member of the New English Art Club, but was not elected as an Associate Member of the Royal Academy until 1940, at the age of 79. Three years later, she was appointed a DBE. After her death in 1951, her obituary in The Times noted that she had been ‘the most important woman artist of her time since Berthe Morisot’. Many of Walker’s early paintings were floral still life and intimate interior scenes in muted colours. Her later work was influenced by the bright colour and light of French Impressionist painting. Walker is best known for her portraits of women and girls. She preferred models to be as ‘natural’ as possible, removing all forms of adornment such as make-up and jewellery, to allow her to focus on an individual’s expression and temperament.
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Explore
- Places
- Subjects
- seascape/coastal scene, beach, wave
- Materials & Techniques
- canvas, oil, oil painting
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Details
- Title
- Seascape
- Date
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- height: 64.00 cm, width: 89.50 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from Leicester Galleries, December 1956
- Inscription
- br: Ethel Walker
- Provenance
- Collection of ‘M. Balfour’; from whom purchased by the Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in December 1956
- GAC number
- 3655