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Philip Wilson Steer
Portrait of a Woman - Blue - British Edwardian Impressionist art oil painting

Circa 1900

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Painted by the noted British Impressionist Philip Wilson Steer, this fine oil portrait depicts a young woman and was painted circa 1900. Educated at South Kensington Schools and Academie Julien, he has works housed in many major National collections and with Walter Sickert he became a leading figure of the Impressionist movement in Britain. In 1886 he became founder of The new England Art Club. This "Blue Period" portrait is a very evocative depiction of a young woman. Signed lower left. Provenance. Essex Collection. Condition. Oil painting on canvas, 25 inches by 20 inches approx unframed and in excellent condition. Framed size, 31 by 26 inches. In very good condition. Philip Wilson Steer (1860-1942) was born at Birkenhead on 28 December 1860, the son of Philip Steer, a painter of portraits and teacher of painting. The Steer family moved to Apsley House, Whitchurch, Monmouth, when Wilson Steer was three. He lived there for seventeen years attending the Hereford Cathedral School and, when he was about eighteen, studying drawing and painting under John Kemp at the school of art at Gloucester. He failed to enter the Academy Schools and went to Paris in 1882, studying first at Julian’s under Bougurean and later, in 1883, at the Beaux Arts under Cabanel. He exhibited only two works at the academy: Fantaisie, the head of an Italian girl, and Discovery, a painting of a woman with a mask, which the artist later destroyed. The grafting of French Impressionism on English stock has, perhaps, been Wilson Steer’s chief contribution to art and it is interesting that the real impetus towards this only came to him later than his residences in Paris in 1882-83, through the exhibition at Dowdeswells of the works of Monet, Pissarro and Renoir. As a result of the French training of British artists, Scottish and English, in 1886 The New English Art Club, of which Steer had been for more than 30 years a corner stone, was inaugurated, Steer contributing one oil painting, Andante.
  • Creator:
    Philip Wilson Steer (1860 - 1942, British)
  • Creation Year:
    Circa 1900
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 31 in (78.74 cm)Width: 26 in (66.04 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    London, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU853113046692
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