Between-the-Wars Portrait

Agnes Clara Tatham (1893–1972) excelled at portraiture, depicting female sitters in particular, characteristically painting in a restrained palette with a consciousness of colour, pattern and form. Tatham studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art in Kensington, where she became a lifelong friend of the teacher Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872–1945), the Royal Institute of Oil Painters' earliest female member. She also studied at the Royal Academy Schools, and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Paris Salon and the Royal Society of British Artists. Tatham's work, relatively rare and underappreicated, can be considered in the context of the work of British Post-Impressionists such as Augustus and Gwen John. As well as portraits, she also painted allegorical subjects in a mystical, Symbolist style.

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