While participating in the preparation of Matter of Age exhibition with Lancaster Arts and Peter Scott Gallery, I thought about women and aging. With this curation I wanted to explore the representation of older women, powerful women, women of different cultures, as well as works of female artists.
An Old Woman Singing, and a Dog
Giacomo Francesco Cipper (1664–1736)
Oil on canvas
H 96 x W 70 cm
National Trust, Stourhead
Study of a Woman Seated, in a Blue Shawl
Alan Francis Clutton-Brock (1904–1976) or Evelyn Alice Clutton-Brock (1876–1964)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 51 cm
National Trust, Chastleton House
Old Woman in a Wired Cap 19th C
Dutch School
Oil on canvas
H 56 x W 42 cm
National Trust, The Argory
Study of the Bust of an Unknown Older Woman
Evelyn Alice Clutton-Brock (1876–1964)
Oil on canvas
H 46 x W 36 cm
National Trust, Chastleton House
Sketch for 'Esther Maria Tuke' c.1903
Henry Scott Tuke (1858–1929)
Oil on wood panel
H 27.2 x W 18.8 cm
The Tuke Collection, Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society
Sketch of an Old Woman at Cernay-le-Roi, France c.1865–1869
Joséphine Bowes (1825–1874)
Oil on canvas
H 43.1 x W 35.6 cm
The Bowes Museum
Old Woman beside a Fire c.1860–1874
Joséphine Bowes (1825–1874)
Oil on canvas
H 32.5 x W 25 cm
The Bowes Museum
Walter Stevens Cole (1883–1967)
Oil on paper
H 114.3 x W 86.4 cm
Carmarthenshire Museums Service Collection
Vera Cummings (1891–1949)
Oil on canvas
H 19 x W 14 cm
Haslemere Educational Museum
Portrait of an Old Woman in a Cartwheel Ruff and Black Hat c.1618/1625
Cornelius Johnson (1593–1661)
Oil on panel
H 76 x W 63.5 cm
National Trust, Uppark
Cotswold Study, Head of a Woman 1884
Frances Rose Emeris (1860–1943)
Oil on canvas
H 50.5 x W 40.5 cm
Tolsey Museum
Mrs Stephens 1927
Arnold G. Mountfort (1873–1942)
Oil on canvas
H 91.5 x W 71 cm
Penryn Town Council and Museum
Woman Holding a Flower c.1908–1922
Gwen John (1876–1939)
Oil on canvas
H 44.8 x W 29.3 cm
Birmingham Museums Trust
A Fishwife 1905 (?)
Nina Anderson (active 1886–1938)
Oil on canvas
H 44.5 x W 24 cm
North Tyneside Council
Old Woman Reading 1861
Thomas Faed (1825–1900)
Oil on canvas
H 73.7 x W 54.6 cm
National Trust for Scotland, Brodie Castle
Dame Annie Maud Burnett (1863–1950), Politician
Frank Samuel Eastman (1878–1964)
Oil on canvas
H 126 x W 101 cm
North Tyneside Council
Ellen Mitchell 1919
Hilda Downton (1901–2006)
Oil on canvas
H 77.6 x W 67.2 cm
London Borough of Bexley
Mrs Alington c.1973
Philippa Mary Thomas (b.1919)
Oil on canvas
H 50.6 x W 40.9 cm
Great Bardfield Historical Society
Portrait of an Old Man (or Woman) Praying 1500–1530
Flemish School or German School
Oil on panel
H 10 x W 8.5 cm
National Trust, Ham House
The Kipper Woman c.1900
Edith Bateson (1867–1938)
Oil on canvas
H 40.5 x W 30.5 cm
Pannett Art Gallery
Evelyn Alice Clutton-Brock (1876–1964)
Oil on panel
H 52 x W 42 cm
National Trust, Chastleton House