"Field-Marshall The Lord Harding G.C.B.,
C.B.E.," charcoal, signed l/l, inscribed
l/r, 16" x 11.5"
Condition: Very good; not examined out of the frame.
Biography: The portrait painter Juliet Pannett was
born in Hove in 1911 and is one of the oldest
living artists to have work in the National
Portrait Gallery collection. Throughout her
long and prolific career she has recorded
the faces of the great and good including
many Prime Ministers, politicians, lawyers,
judges, academics and musicians.
Pannett studied at Brighton College
of Art
in the 1920s and received her
first portrait
commission at the age of eighteen
from Sussex
County Magazine. She was employed
to travel
around the county drawing local
characters,
from blacksmiths and rabbit catchers
to horse-cab
drivers and Crimean war-veterans.
In 1934 Pannett was elected a
member of the
Society of Graphic Artists and
began teaching
at a girl's school near Crawley.
She acquired
her first studio in a mews in
Hove and began
her foreign travels with trips
to Spain,
Germany and Italy; a passion
that was to
last a lifetime. Forced to give
up painting
at the beginning of the Second
World War,
Pannett returned to it with enthusiasm
in
subsequent years and from 1957-64
was Special
Artist to the Illustrated London
News.
In 1989, at the age of 78, Pannett
was commissioned
to paint the Queen at Buckingham
Palace.
She has exhibited at the Royal
Academy and
the Royal Society of Portrait
Painters and
was awarded an MBE in 1993.
The portrait for sale here depicts
Field-Marshall
The Lord Harding G.C.B., C.B.E.
The piece
has been fully signed, and dated
verso as
26th June 1961. The charcoal
is in super
condition, with only a little
light foxing
at the very top and bottom. The
piece measures
29cm x 40cm.
Twenty-one drawings by this artist are in
the collection of the National Portrait Gallery,
London.
$ 245.00
inclusive of S/H/I*
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States.
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