Amor et Pietas
£49,950
‘Amor et Pietas’ by Ursula Wood S.W.A. (1868-1956).
The painting – which depicts a group of children laying to rest their pet dog – is signed and dated by the artist. Ursula Wood’s masterpiece, ‘Amor et Pietas’ (‘Love and Compassion’ in Latin) was exhibited at the Royal Academy and at the prestigious Victorian Era Exhibition at Earl’s Court in 1897. It hangs in a newly commissioned gold metal leaf Aesthetic Movement frame.
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Ursula Wood trained at St. John's Wood Art School under William Frederick Yeames and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, before entering the Royal Academy Schools. In 1889, during her time as a student at Burlington House, she won the Turner Medal, the first time the honour had ever been awarded to a woman. A superb painter of landscapes, interiors, and especially figures Ursula Wood began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1890 and would go on to do so for the next three decades.
Between 1890 and 1922 Ursula Wood exhibited twenty-eight paintings at the Royal Academy and many others at the Society of Women Artists (of which she was a founder member), the Royal Scottish Academy, the Walker Gallery in Liverpool, Whitechapel Gallery, the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, and the Victorian Era Exhibition. Today, works by Ursula Wood can be found in the British Museum and the Imperial War Museum in London, and at Manchester Art Gallery.
Academy Fine Paintings only offers artwork for sale in the finest condition it can be for its age, having been professionally cleaned, conserved, and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary.
Dimensions: (framed) 200cm x 167cm (79” x 66”).
Dimensions: (canvas only) 174cm x 144cm (x 68½” x 56¾”).
Medium: Oil on canvas, laid to board.
Provenance: Royal Academy Exhibition, London (cat. no.668); Victorian Era Exhibition, Earl’s Court, London, 1897 (cat. no.197); private collection of East Down Manor, Devonshire.
Presentation: Newly commissioned gold metal leaf Aesthetic Movement frame.
Condition: Very good. Professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.