Page 54 - Christmas 2018
P. 54
An Edwardian portrait miniature of a young Officer, wearing khaki coat and peaked cap,1917
By Margaret Dovaston 1917 H 7.2cm
H 3"
Signed on the obverse M DOVASTON and dated, gilt-metal frame with glazed reverse.
Margaret Isabel Dovaston, a British artist who became particularly well known for her oil paintings of historical interior English genre scenes, often depicting groups of figures in Eighteenth Century dress, spent her whole working life in the Ealing and Acton area of west London. In 1910, she was active in establishing The Ealing Art Guild, later to become the Ealing Arts Club; she organised the first of its annual art exhibitions, and was appointed Secretary of the Guild. During the second decade of the Twentieth Century, and beyond, she established herself as both a commercial and war artist
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