Portrait of a Lady
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 20.24 x 24.12 inches sight size / 34.24 x 38.12 inches framed
Signed Tr. Frederic Whiting
Provenance: 1917, Exhibition – The Royal Institute of Oil Painters
1918, Government Art Collection, House of Lords
1921,The Royal Trust
Property of an An American Gentleman
Frederic Whiting trained at the St John’s Wood School of Art, the Royal Academy Schools and at the Académie Julian in Paris before serving as a war correspondent for The Graphic in China during the Boxer Rebellion, and in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War. His painted sa select group of Lords and Ladies, and like Munnings and Singer Sargent, to whom he was frequently compared, he had an excellent sense of how light and atmosphere effected the movement within his portraits. He was a widely travelled painter of mostly portraits and an Associate of the Royal Society of BritishArtists 1911, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 1918, Royal Institute of Oil Painters
1915, Royal Society of Portrait Painters 1914 and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour.
As well as exhibiting at these venues he also exhibited at the Royal Academy;
Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Walker Art Gallery, also showing at the Ipswich Fine Art Club in 1923. Among his more illustrious commissions – An equestrian portrait of King George V (1936, National Portrait Gallery), and a portrait of the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret riding at Windsor (1945, Royal Collections, Windsor Castle).
