A Society Beauty Black & White Born in Glasgow

Born in Glasgow

Exhibited in the Golf Exhibition at the High Museum of Art

we talked mainly about the tango

very resonant of the post war British art scene and perfect examples of that Camberwell School aesthetic that is now so much in fashion

I’m at a loss

A Society Beauty Black & White Born in GlasgowThis is an archetypal Belle Epoque portrait, painted in 1899 it shows a young woman of wealth and social standing. Although dressed in sumptuous silks, it is a domestic moment rather than a formal coming of age or marriage marker. She looks mildly peeved at being interrupted, a well loved book in hand. It is looser and more Parisian than his later works and as it surfaced in America it could well be one of the many wealthy heiresses wearing a furrow