‡Augustus Edwin John O.M.

‡Augustus Edwin John O.M., R.A. (1878-1961)

A lady, probably Dorelia, seated on a clifftop, sewing

Signed

Oil on panel

23.25 x 33cm; 9¼ x 13in

Provenance:

The Collection of Viscount Cowdray

By family descent to the present owner

The shoreline is almost certainly the Etang de Berre. Dorelia joined John there in 1910 and they rented the nearby Villa Ste. Anne in Martigues. Dorelia and the family were frequently painted here and they returned on and off for eighteen years.