Rothenstein purchased some outstanding portraits of the period for the collection including this rare portrait by Esmond Lowinsky which he purchased in 1939.
Miss Jean Brady 1933 oil on canvas by Esmond Lowinsky (1892-1947).
Quarter-length portrait of Jean Brady, her head turned to the left with her gaze directed away from the viewer. She wears a dark beret and buttoned coat with a spotted scarf beneath. She appears to be in her thirties.
Lowinsky adopted a fastidious and highly detailed painting technique. It took him a long time to complete a painting and his output was small. Rothenstein said in a letter to Carlisle on 14 March 1939, “I have also bought a painting by Thomas Lowinsky, a too little known contemporary painter, a fastidious craftsman who works long on his painting and whose production is in consequence limited. Sir Kenneth Clarke is a great admirer of his and has at least one of his pictures in his private collection, and there is an early example in the Tate Gallery.”
There are these inscriptions on the exhibit:
This exhibit is currently on display. Ref CALMG : 1939.32.5
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery collection, purchased by Sir William Rothenstein 1939
Image © reserved / Estate of Esmond Lowinsky
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