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Gerald Leslie BrockhurstA Ballynakill Woman.c. 1926
c. 1926
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A Ballynakill Woman. c. 1926. Oil on canvas. 30 x 25. Housed in an elegant gold leaf frame. Signed 'Brockhurst' in green paint, in the blanket, lower right. Provenance: Provenance: Estate of Kathleen Woodward Brockhurst.
From the collection of Philip Rieff and Alison Douglas Knox, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In 1914 Brockhurst married Anais, a Frenchwoman, and the following year they moved to Ireland where they remained until 1919. He used his wife as a model for many of his early works. Whilst in Ireland, the couple befriended established painters such as Augustus John whose influence is evident in the more rugged handling of paint and penetrating portraits.
In 1926, Brockhurst made an etching of the same subject.
A Ballynakill Woman portrays a peasant woman from Connemara regarding whom Harold Wright recorded a disturbing note: "Brockhurst told me that the two children (her daughters, depicted in another etching by Brockhurst) were her illegitimate offspring. She was a very rough character and was said to have committed seven murders! I suppose this is all gospel truth? H.W." (inscribed on an impression of her portrait in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Whatever her past may have been, she discriminated cruelly between her two daughters, who were the subject of G.L. Brockhurst's poignant etching entitled The West of Ireland (Fletcher 61). She isolated the younger daughter, and lavished attention on her sister. She hacked at the hair of the poor younger girl, cutting her fringe jaggedly in spite, and dressed her in drab clothes, whilst favouring her sister with pretty dresses. Unable to bear this constant rejection, the younger girl threw herself into a lake and drowned."
- Creator:Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890 - 1978, English)
- Creation Year:c. 1926
- Dimensions:Height: 37 in (93.98 cm)Width: 33 in (83.82 cm)Depth: 3.5 in (8.89 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:UniquePrice: $45,000
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- Gallery Location:Storrs, CT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU335215753622
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
(b Birmingham, 31 Oct. 1890; d Franklin Lakes, NJ, 4 May 1978). British-born painter and etcher who became an American citizen in 1949. Precociously gifted, an excellent draughtsman, and a fine craftsman, Brockhurst won several prizes at the Royal Academy Schools and went on to have a highly successful career as a society portraitist, first in Britain and then in the USA, where he settled in 1939, working in New York and New Jersey. He is best known for his portraits of glamorous women, painted in an eye-catching, dramatically lit, formally posed style similar to that later associated with Annigoni. As an etcher Brockhurst is remembered particularly for Adolescence (1932), a powerful study of a naked girl on the verge of womanhood staring broodingly into a mirror—one of the masterpieces of 20th-century printmaking.
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