Kate Elizabeth Olver Pencil Portrait Study Circa.1925

Kate Elizabeth Olver Pencil Portrait Study Circa.1925Kate Elizabeth Olver 1881 1960 British School 20th. Century. A wonderfully sensitive Pencil Portrait Study of a young woman Circa. 1925. 17. 5 by 25 cms. Image. 38 by 45 cms. Overall framed. Born in London, Olver studied at the Royal Academy Schools between 1901 and1906. She specialized in portraits and figure subjects, exhibiting widely including at the Royal Academy, The Society of Women Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute and The Paris Salon. She

contrasted against the smoothness of the sitters skin

She married Sir Hans Hamilton

Some slight surface abrasion and old mount staining to no real detriment

BM collection Heal 117

22 by 16 x 22 cms

"A View of the Royal Circus near the Obelisk now in St Georges Fields Surry

a member of a Luddite gang was from Basford near Nottingham

Century Topographical landscape study of the River Thames at Northfleet Kent Circa

a rank unsurpassed by an artist in Britain until Frederic Leighton was created Baron Leighton of Stretton almost two centuries later

with rear buildings on Sutton Street and in Hog Lane

In 1786 he was awarded the silver medal and in the same year began exhibiting at the Academy

21 by 25 cms overall