By Edward Bainbridge Copnall
Located in Hagley, England
A dramatic head and shoulders portrait of a lady in coloured chalks attributed to noted British artist Edward Bainbridge Copnall. This is just a stunning artwork which dates to circa 1940.
Signed Bainbridge Copnall.
Provenance. Midlands collection.
Condition. Coloured chalks on paper, 16 inches by 13 inches and in good colour and condition. Some staining to edges.
Housed in its original gallery frame 21 by 18 inches. In excellent condition.
Edward Bainbridge Copnall MBE ( 1903-1973) was a British sculptor and painter. He was best known for his architectural and decorative sculptures featuring allegorical and religious subjects. He was the President of the Royal Society of Sculptors from 1961 - 1966. Edward Bainbridge Copnall was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1903 and moved to Horsham, West Sussex in England as a young child after the death of his mother. His father, photographer Edward White Copnall (born 1878, Isle of Wight), lived and worked in Horsham from 1915-1962. His uncle was Liverpool-based portrait painter Frank Thomas Copnall...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors