Suntanned Old Sentinal

 

Elsie Garrett Rice

  1869 - 1959 (biography)

c. 1920  

watercolor 

8 9/16 x 6 7/8" image 

signed in pen, lower right 

 

annotated with poem in pen 

 

ivory laid 

 

 

2220 

$600.00 

From the collection of Danish critic and author Georg Bröchner, who wrote for the British art magazine "The Studio" in the early 20th century. Elsie Garret Rice (1869-1959), she was listed in the 1891 census as an artist living as a visitor in Epsom, Surrey. She had studied at the Slade School of Art, London before teaching at Bedales. She and her twin brother had been born in Elton, Derbyshire and she went to school in West Bromwich. In 1901 she is recorded as living Hampstead and later in South Africa where she illustrated "Wild Flowers of the Cape of Good Hope" written by Robert Harold Compton.