Rome Scholars
SOLDStanley Lewis (1905 - 2009):
The Welsh Dress - Portrait of Muriel Pemberton, circa 1929
Unframed (ref: 3801)
Signed, inscribed on the reverse, Stanley C. Lewis, Royal College of Art, Rome Scholarship in Mural Painting.
Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.5 cm.)
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Provenance: from the artist's own collection.
Exhibited: The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12th June - 5th September 2010..cat.no.14
This
is a portrait of Muriel Pemberton, Stanley's fellow student and fiancee
at the Royal College of Art. Muriel Pemberton, shown wearing a dress
of her own design, later went onto become Head of Fashion at St.
Martins School of Art. She also modeled for Stanley's painting Hyde
Park in Summer, where she appears twice.
