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"A Dapple Grey Hunter in a Yard". by Frances Mabel Hollams*. Signed and dated 1924.
Oil on board. Framed.
Measures: Image 40 by 31 cms. Outer Frame 56 by 45 cms
A particularly fine example of the type of equestrian portrait for which Hollams was noted.
The painting is displayed to advantage in an attractive wooden frame.
*Florence (or Frances) Mabel Hollams (1877–1963) was a popular British painter of dogs and horses, active in the first three decades of the twentieth century.
She is noted for her technique of painting on wood panel with no background, so that the grain of the wood is visible. She studied under the artist Frank Calderton at a time when most schools did not accept female students; she also studied in Paris at the Academy Julian. Her clients included Royalty and she was one of the first female Royal Academicians. In 1899 she was elected to the Society of Women Artists.