Property of a Gentleman Peggy Somerville (1918 - 1975) Suff...

Estimate

£400 - £600

Property of a Gentleman

Peggy Somerville (1918 - 1975)
Suffolk River Landscape
Colour pastel on paper
In a modern gilt frame

Born in Ashford, Middlesex to the artist and collector Charles Somerville, Peggy Somerville was a prodigious young artistic talent. At the age of only three, a selection of her drawings were chosen for display at the Royal Society of Drawing. Aged nine, Somerville's first one-woman 'retrospective' was held at the Claridge Gallery, London, which saw her praised across international newspapers and hailed as a 'child genius'. Somerville continued to paint into adulthood, developing the British Impressionist style. She returned frequently to depict the Suffolk landscape, of which the present work is characteristic. 

Dimensions:
(Paper) 11.5 in. (H) x 15 in. (W)
(Frame) 20.5 in. (H) x 23.5 in. (W)