2339 | British Fine & Decorative Arts
Sun, Sep 24, 2023 12:00PM EDT
Lot 126
PAIR PORTRAITS OIL PAINTINGS
Estimate: $3,000 - $4,000
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Size: 63cm x 50cm
Medium: Oil
Descritpion: Pair Fine Art Posthumous Portraits Oil Paintings Ernest Akroyd Kinnear & Wife Marcia Ellen Crosbie C1939. Subject dual portraits of a man and wife in front facing profile she is an elegant beautiful young lady with rosy cheeks and blue eyes, curly short strawberry blonde hair wearing a smart mustard and black formal dress, with a brooch onby her neck. He has brown eyes, short receding darker blonde hair and is wearing a black suite and white shirt, he has rosy cheeks has a moustache, masculine jaw line and nose to match. The posthumous portrait was adopted from European traditions of portraying the dead as alive. These posthumous portraits became a genre all their own by transforming the dead back into life through this medium.
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