Portrait of a young lady
signed and dated 'Lisa Stillman 1892' (upper left)
coloured chalks
34 x 29cm
Provenance
Private collection, UK
Estimate: | £1,000 - £2,000 |
Hammer price: | £9,500 |
Footnote
Lisa Stillman was the child of William J. Stillman and his first wife, Laura
Mack. After her mother's death, Lisa was raised by William Stillman's second
wife, the Pre-Raphaelite artist Marie Spartali. She enrolled at the Slade
School of Fine Art for a year, and was also tutored by George Frederick Watts.
When the family moved to Rome in 1886, she studied with Ernest Hebert at the
French Academy in that city. Through Hebert she came to know the landscape
painter Giovanni Costa, the leader of a group of Italian and British landscape
painters who have since come to be known as the Etruscans. From this group a
second society of painters was formed, who exhibited primarily in Italy, known
as In Arte Libertas.
Lisa Stillman was active in artistic circles socially in both London and the
United States
(https://emuseum.delart.org/people/1875/lisa-stillman)
Condition report
The sheet has been laid down on card; pinholes to the corners and borders; scuffing to the sheet with a small patch of paint loss to the upper and lower right corners; spots of foxing, particularly lower right but some further spots elsewhere. Framed and under glass.