Portrait painter Frederick Rice Webster was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and studied art at the Royal Academy in Munich. Though based in Chicago, he undertook a series of portrait commissions in Los Angeles between 1912 and 1913.
The languid hand-behind-the-head pose of this unidentified young woman in a black evening dress recalls the glamour of 1930s Hollywoo ...click for details
Mabel Gear was a painter of birds and animals. She was born at the Ashby Rectory in Surrey, 1900. She studied at Colchester School of Art and under Septimus Power at Bushey. ...click for details
