THE TRYSTING PLACE
signed with monogram lower right
pencil and bodycolour on Windsor and Newton sketching board
37 x 18cm; 14 1/2 x 7in
63.5 x 44.5cm; 25 x 17 1/2in (framed)

Provenance
Sale, Sotheby's London, 25 January 1989, lot 417
Purchased by the previous owner in the early 1990s

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, described as a ‘Pre-Raphaelite revivalist’, studied first at Crystal Palace School of Art under Herbert Bone from 1889, then St John’s Wood School of Art and finally the Royal Academy Schools. She was elected a full member of the Royal Watercolour Society, however, as a woman, she could not become a Royal Academician at the time. During World War I she designed posters for a number of government departments and after the war more than twenty commemorative stained-glass windows. Her work appears in York Minister and Bristol Cathedral. She was also an accomplished illustrator and provided illustrations for books by Tennyson and Walter Scott. In 1920, a solo exhibition of her watercolours was held at the Leicester Galleries.