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John George HookhamPortrait of the artist’s cousin, Gladys Coombs (1899-1963), c. 1920-251920s
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John George Hookham (1899-1972)
Portrait of the artist’s cousin, Gladys Coombs (1899-1963), c. 1920-25
With a figure study verso
Oil on canvas
In an attractive, stylised ‘Lely’ type frame
81.8 x 57 cm.; (within frame) 95.4 x 70.3 cm.
Unsigned
Provenance:
The sitter, Gladys Coombs, and thence by family descent until 2025;
From whom acquired.
The sitter’s intent visual engagement speaks to her relationship with the artist, her maternal cousin of the same birth year of 1899. Hookham evidently practised his early skill on willing relatives, exhibiting a portrait of his father as his 1922 debut at the Royal Academy. Coomb’s apparent youth dates the work to this first half of the 1920s, as does her fashion, which consists of a tailored jacket over a silk or cotton blouse with a scalloped collar, modestly embellished with a gold and pearl stick pin or bar brooch. Elegantly combining the modes of the post-war ‘modern woman’ with a lingering Edwardian restraint, Coombs’ attire is both feminine and practical. Likewise, the loose arrangement of her hair, pinned up and possibly manually waved, predates the more cropped and elaborate hairstyles of the later 1920s.
Hookham’s style is equally distinct to this progressive period. Whereas Coombs’ face is inevitably more highly worked, the brushwork of her jacket is typically loose, with thinned pigment gesturally shaping the uppermost detail. This confident application echoes the predominate style established by the leading artists, including Sir William Nicholson, Harold Knight, and John Harrington Mann. Yet Hookham introduces an unusual and striking compositional feature with the sitter’s surround, enclosing his relation within a background of a deep wine colour. Broad applications of a more vibrant tone (presumably mixed later than the darker background pigment) are used to precisely shape Coombs’ shoulders by ‘shaving down’ the existing paint.
John Hookham was the son of William B. Hookham (1858-1953) and Mary Hansford (1868-1948). He is recorded as having lived at 24 Donovan Avenue, Muswell Hill, London. Hookham studied at the Slade, where in 1923 he came joint first in the Slade School of Art prize in figure painting. Hookham exhibited at the Royal Academy first in 1922, and later in 1934 and 1938, where his submission was hung in Gallery IV alongside works by Sir John Lavery, Harold Knight, and Stanhope Forbes. Hookham was later associated with Cambridge, teaching at Cambridge School of Art. Bernard Dolman notes that Hookham exhibited at Rossiter’s Gallery (Cambridge), a dealership operated at 8 Rose Crescent by James Rossiter. Mary Hansford (Hookham’s mother) was the daughter of Alice Anne Reynolds and Anthony Hansford, whose brother Frederick Hansford and his wife Emily Cave had Gladys Hansford and Priscilla Hansford. Gladys married Charles Coombs in 1930.
Bibliography and further reading:
Bernard Dolman, Who’s Who in Art, 2 vols. (London: The Art Trade Press Ltd., 1929)
- Creator:John George Hookham (1899 - 1972, British)
- Creation Year:1920s
- Dimensions:Height: 37.56 in (95.4 cm)Width: 27.68 in (70.3 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Henley-on-Thames, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2820216465712
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