In its original carded gesso Rowley Galleries frame
Provenance: Col. Peason of Bramcote; private collection.
Exhibited: United Artist’s Exhibition, Royal Academy 1939.
Contemporary
Tempera: Russell Cotes Art Gallery, Bournemouth, 1942 (no. 3) Religious
Art Competition, Central Institute of Art and Design, National Gallery,
London, (no date).
Dorothy Sims Williams studied at Stockport
Art School (1926-8) and the RA Schools (1928-33) under Walter Russell
and F.E.Jackson. She cited Holbein and Cezanne amongst her influences.
She exhibited well over 50 works at The Society of Women Artists as
well as the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and Royal West of England
Academy.