Title: Anne Marie Migette Perard; Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Pencil Drawing of Docked Rowboats Description: Young Westminster by Kathleen Emily Temple-Bird (British 1879 - 1962) signed and dated 1931 oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 33 x 24 canvas: 29 x 20 inches condition: very good, minor surface scuffs provenance: private collection, England; with exhibition labels verso. This stunning 1930's classic English portrait depicts the artists son, John Frank Temple-Bird (1917 - 1970). Educated at Westminster School, John joined the Royal Artillery in 1939, his career peaked as a Colonel and Garrison Commander in Shoeburyness, Essex in the mid 1960s. Kathleen Temple-Bird was an artist, teacher and believer in Women’s suffrage. Having been brought up in Ipswich, she trained at the Slade School of Art before travelling to France and Italy. She later travelled alone across Canada, becoming Head of Art at Havergal College, Toronto. She married in 1911 and settled in London, where she exhibited the majority of her paintings, but moved to St Ives in Cornwall for the duration of the Second World War.
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