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Harold Dearden (1888 - 1962)

Model in Bathing Suit, Posing in the Artists Studio, c.1922

SKU: 488
Signed on the reverse
Oil on canvas
Presentation:
framed

Size:
Height – 81.3cm x Width – 106.7cm

DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
The Artist’s Studio

Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.111.

Painted in the artist’s Oakley Street studio in Chelsea, this work depicts a model posed in an unidentified beach scene. The painting can be dated by the model’s hairstyle and the design of her swimming costume.

We are grateful to Jacquie Lewis for assistance.

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THE ARTIST

Harold Dearden
Harold
Dearden
1888 - 1962

Painter in oil and watercolour, draughtsman in ink and wash. Dearden
studied at Rochdale School of Art under H Barrett Carpenter, 1905-10,
then at the Royal College of Art for five years under Gerald Moira.
Dearden, a strong draughtsman, went on to become head of Swindon Art
School for 30 years from 1920 and was president for a time of Swindon
Artists’ Society. He exhibited in London and provincial galleries and
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery holds his work. Lived in Swindon.

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