European Art: Paintings & Sculpture
European Art: Paintings & Sculpture
FRANK CADOGAN COWPER R.A. | FANNY, SKETCH OF A GIRL IN CRINOLINE DRESS
Lot Closed
June 18, 02:57 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
FRANK CADOGAN COWPER R.A.
1877-1958
FANNY, SKETCH OF A GIRL IN CRINOLINE DRESS
titled and signed l.r.; "Fanny"/ F. Cadogan Cowper; inscribed on the old backboard 'Sketch of a girl in crinoline dress/ by Frank Cadogan Cowper A.R.A/ 1 Edwardes Square Street/ Kensington/ Fanny Stevens, the shoemaker's daughter of Fairford, Glos./ Drawn in January 1903/ Given to the Sale in aid of the "Red Cross" Fund at Christie's March 1915'
watercolour over pencil
31 by 26cm., 12.25 by 10.25in.
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Melbourne, Leonard Joel, 22 February 2009, lot 51;
Melbourne, Mossgreen, 15 June 2011, lot 956
According to the 1901 census, Fanny Stevens was the daughter of Eliza Stevens, a 'Boot and Shoe Shop Keeper' at 114 London Street, Fairford in Gloucestershire, living with her widowed aunt and sister. She was sixteen when this was painted in 1903 and Cowper had only recently graduated from the Royal Academy Schools. Cowper later recalled his months spent at Fairford as 'the most delightful time of my life.'