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2014-1 Miss Winifred Barnes

Stage beauty Winifred Barnes (1892-1935). 3/4-length, full-face portrait of a young woman, landscape background.

Category Art - Ambrose McEvoy
LocationOttawa
Medium (select)
Height (inches)40
Width (inches)30
Framedno
Year (earliest)1921
Year (latest)1921
Finished work?yes
Notessittings in diary of 1921
Condition reportcanvas is very brittle and linen has split along lower tacking margin with multiple tears at tacking edge, bottom right small losses to canvas along tear,bottom edge small surface abrasions near top left & right edge.Paint loss has occurred bottom fi...

2014-2 three quarter length Female portrait

3/4-length, full-face, oil on light weight canvas, stretcher with one horizontal cross bar:missing three keys Condition: Canvas is brittle, but has not slackened. No distortion. surface has been varnished. Surface dirt is present, otherwise condition re ...

Category Art - Ambrose McEvoy
LocationOttawa
Medium (select)
Height (inches)40
Width (inches)30
Framedno
Year (earliest)1910
Year (latest)1920
Finished work?no
Condition reportAbove Examined 8th June 2014

2014-3 Female portrait

3/4-length portrait, sitter angled and head turned and full face.

Category Art - Ambrose McEvoy
LocationOttawa
Medium (select)
Height (inches)40
Width (inches)30
Framedno
Year (earliest)19187
Year (latest)1927
Finished work?yes
Condition reportDescription/Condition: Canvas has split and retracted from the bottom stretcher member with loss of paint at bottom edge. One tear lower centre (10 cm long) with deformation of canvas and paint loss. Surface is clouded by aged wax coating. Needs ...

2014/4 Portrait of a girl, unfinished

three quarter length portrait, sitter facing left full face. Warm tones

Category Art - Ambrose McEvoy
LocationOttawa
Medium (select)
Height (inches)40
Width (inches)30
Framedno
Finished work?no
Condition reportPainting has been heavily keyed out and the tacking margin has snapped along bottom edge, and partly along left side and top. Canvas is brittle, slack and deformed in ridges. some pant loss has occurred to the left of the sitters head. paint loss ...
2014-5 1st sitting for a portrait of a young girl in blue

2014-5 1st sitting for a portrait of a young girl in blue

Portrait of a young girl seated cross-legged, first sitting executed principally in Blue and white on a light background.

Category Art - Ambrose McEvoy
LocationOttawa
Medium (select)
Height (inches)40
Width (inches)30
Framedno
Year (earliest)1918
Year (latest)1926
Finished work?no
Condition reportGenerally sound, possibly varnished. stretcher bars closed tight. Some water stains on the reverse. Canvas is brittle-but no deformation Considerable surface dirt on painted surface. No obvious surface coating. Sigs of ware damage on canvas verso...

2014-6 portrait of Mrs William D Johnson

2014-6 3/4 length Portrait of a young lady, head in profile. wearing necklace of red stones. head almost in profile.

Category Art - Ambrose McEvoy
Locationclimate controlled storage
Medium (select)
Height (inches)40
Width (inches)30
Framedno
Year (earliest)1905
Year (latest)1920
Finished work?yes
Condition reportcanvas sound, very dusty,paint worn on edges of canvas, heavy bloom in some areas
2014-7 Full face port it of a young girl in blue

2014-7 Full face port it of a young girl in blue

Full face portrait of a young girl in blue. reverse: By Ambrose McEvoy unfinished.

Category Art - Ambrose McEvoy
LocationOttawa
Medium (select)
Height (inches)40
Width (inches)30
Framedno
Year (earliest)1916
Year (latest)1927
Finished work?no
Condition reportCanvas and stretcher sound. Cupping of the paint in distinct areas. Description/Condition: Canvas is brittle and slack- aged (discoloured). Recto displays heavy blanching from (possibly) wax surface coating. Some abrasive damage to paint along edge...

2014-11

full length portrait of a lady standing

Category Art - Ambrose McEvoy
Locationprivate collection UK
Medium (select)
Height (inches)40
Width (inches)30
Framedno
Finished work?no
Condition reportDescription/condition: Canvas is very brittle and fragile. Draw in top left corner. Abrasions visible along top edge and top right corner of painting. Abrasion to paint also noticeable along lower edge, left side. Painting appears unvarnished. Su...

2014-9 Portrait of Claude Johnson

2014-9

Category Art - Ambrose McEvoy
Medium (select)
Height (inches)40
Width (inches)30
Framedno
2014/13 Portrait of a man in academic Gown

2014/13 Portrait of a man in academic Gown

3/4 length portrait of a man in academic gown. facing left,

Category Art - Ambrose McEvoy
LocationOttawa
Medium (select)
Height (inches)40
Width (inches)30
Framedno
Year (earliest)1916
Year (latest)1927
Finished work?no
Condition reportcanvas sound, at bottom nailed on face of stretcher, large overlap at top with some abrasions. Canvas or stretcher re-used. tight at edges. Paint layer sound with some bloom.vertical bird droppings two thirds to the left, over background
14/16…. portrait of a lady in profile three quarter length

14/16…. portrait of a lady in profile three quarter length

Three quarter length portrait of a lady in profile, facing left. lit from below, blue background.

Category Art - Ambrose McEvoy
LocationPrivate collection U.K.
Medium (select)
Height (inches)40
Width (inches)30
Framedno
Finished work?no
Condition reportFace: canvas sound, except for tacking edge ( rotted) fairly heavy bloom on surface. Reverse: 1 Cross bar, 9 of 18 keys present. Dusty
14/20 River landscape

14/20 River landscape

predominantly blue with right mauve. Horizon approx 35%of height. trees on right.

Category Art - Ambrose McEvoy
LocationOttawa
Medium (select)
Height (inches)24
Width (inches)30
Framedyes
Year (earliest)1920
Year (latest)1927
Finished work?no
Notesmeasurements approx
Condition reportDescription of Condition Painting has been stretched over a sheet of Gatorfoam in a previous restoration. Painting is flat, but canvas shows signs of brittleness with breakage along outer edges of tacking margins at verso.Painting has been cleaned ...
14/46 ( 1St sitting for a portrait. Study Daphne Baring

14/46 ( 1St sitting for a portrait. Study Daphne Baring

3/4 length portrait, full face body slightly turned to left. Face finished, torso and background light with areas of yellow ochre in lower torso

Category Art - Ambrose McEvoy
Locationprivate collection U.K.
Medium (select)
Height (inches)40
Width (inches)30
Framedyes
Finished work?no
NotesFrame not original
Condition reportPainting has been cleaned nd varnished.
14/49 study for "the invalid"

14/49 study for "the invalid"

interior, foreground the invalid reclinig on a chaise longue, window in the background. Interior dark.

Category Art - Ambrose McEvoy
LocationOttawa
Medium (select)
Height (inches)24
Width (inches)30
Framedno
Year (earliest)1899
Year (latest)1905
Notessitter is the artists wife Mary.
Condition reportFace: canvas sound, much dust, image dark, Heavy bloom on canvas.

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