£720
Georgina Agnes BRACKENBURY (1865-1949) Suffragette interest. Sketch For Miniature (1907) Pastel on paper, signed, titled and dated in graphite, 52cm x 43cm, framed 63.5cm x 54cm. Suffragette interest: Georgina was a pallbearer for Emmeline Pankhurst, with the Brackenbury family instrumental to Suffragette efforts, with their home known within the movement as ‘Mouse Castle’ because it provided refuge to released hunger-striking suffragettes under the “Cat & Mouse” (Prisoners Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act. Her studio was used not only for creating artworks, but also for meetings, speeches and training of women in public speaking associated with the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). Georgina, her sister Marie and her elderly mother, Hilda Brackenbury, were arrested more than once, jailed in 1912 for breaking windows at a mass demonstration in Whitehall London in 1912, despite Hilda then being 80 years old. Studying at the Slade School of Art, Georgina was a pupil of Hubert von Herkomer. Her portrait of Emmeline Pankhurst (1927) hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. Her portrait of Viscount Dillon (1894) also hangs in the National Portrait Gallery and she exhibited a portrait of Lord de Mauley at the Royal Academy in 1904.
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