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Description: | This woman shown in a beautiful red velvet dress dominates the room with her vibrant presence. The striking colour immediately provokes attention alongside her confident gaze out of the painting. It is not known who this woman was and whether she was actually a Lady as the title suggests. It was painted by Alfred Egerton Cooper who was born in Tettenhall before attending the Royal College of Art. Artist John Singer Sargent liked his work and employed him to be an assistant at his studio. He portrayed women as confident and strong influential subjects who could make a name for themselves and shape their career from their own talents and abilities. This painting was donated to the collection in 1937.
Signed: A E Cooper
Oil painting of a seated woman wearing a red wrap-round dress. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Fine arts Oil painting Oil Paintings Art collections | Temporal: | 1900 - 1937
20th century (1900-1999) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | COOPER; Alfred Egerton (1883 - 1974) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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