Gwenny Griffiths

Rosa Gwenny Griffiths (25 June 1867 – 22 December 1953) was a Welsh artist known for her portrait and flower paintings.

Gwenny Griffiths
Born
Rosa Gwenny Griffiths

(1867-06-25)25 June 1867
Swansea, Wales
Died22 December 1953(1953-12-22) (aged 86)
Cannes, France
NationalityBritish
Education
Known forPortrait painting

Biography

Griffiths was born in the Druslyn area of Swansea in south Wales and attended Swansea Art School before studying at the Slade School of Art in London where she was taught by Alphonse Legros.[1][2][3] After graduating from the Slade, Griffiths then studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi.[1][4] She first exhibited in London in 1892 with the Society of British Artists, showing a painting titled Madame Chrysantheme, and then regularly at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.[2][4][5][3] On occasion she showed works in Budapest at the Salon Nemzeti and in 1914 had works shown at the Paris Salon.[2] Griffiths was a member of the Women's International Art Club and during 1906 and 1907 served as the club's honorary secretary.[1] She had a solo exhibition at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea in 1922.[1] Griffiths painted a number of notable portraits. Her subjects included Dame Margaret Lloyd George, Lord Justice Banks, the Viscountess Hawarden and the trustees of Swansea Hospital.[1] For a time Griffiths lived in Cannes but spent the duration of World War II in Wales and then returned to France when the conflict ended.[1]

She died in Cannes on 22 December 1953, aged 86.[6]

References
  1. Peter W Jones; Isabel Hitchman (2015). Post War to Post Modern: A Dictionary of Artists in Wales. Gomer Press. ISBN 978-184851-8766.
  2. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Editions Grund, Paris / Oxford University Press. 2006. ISBN 9780199773787.
  3. Josephine Walpole (2006). A History and Dictionary of British Flower Painters 1650-1950. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-504-5.
  4. Brian Stewart; Mervyn Cutten (1997). The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-173-2.
  5. Christopher Wood (1978). The Dictionary of Victorian Painters. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 0-902028-72-3.
  6. Owen, Mari Beynon. "From Swansea to the Riviera" (PDF). Women's Archive Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2019.

4 artworks by or after Gwenny Griffiths at the Art UK site

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