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Description: | 162.2 x 137.2 s. b. l. "E. A.Walton"; label on stretcher in the hand of E. A. Walton "VEREIGUNG (sic). BILDENDER / KUNSTLER OSTERREICHS / VIENNA / No. 1 Portrait of Mrs E. A. Walton / by E. A. Walton / 73 Cheyne Walk/ London."; inscr in black paint on stretcher "London"; stencil on back of canvas "2". CRE WALTON, Edward Arthur; (Scottish; 1860-1922) Helen Henderson first married Thomas Law in 1881, who died a few month after the marriage, leaving her with child. She married again in 1890, this time with E. A. Walton, and had 4 children with him. Walton exhibited a sculpted portrait of his wife, entitled Fantasy, at the Society of Portrait Painters, the Crafton Gallery, 1898.
LABEL: "Walton painted his wife, the artist Helen Law, the year after the couple moved to London. There Walton became increasingly successful as a society potraitist. The restraint of works such as this, with its subdued colouring, simplicity of setting and thin washes of paint, shows Walton's debt to Whistler; its composition is directly based on Whistler's recent portrait of Mrs Walter Sickert." | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PORTRAIT : WHISTLER : FEMALE : ARTIST'S WIFE : GLASGOW BOY : ARTIST : : GLASGOW BOY : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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