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Lacewing Fine Art
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Medium
Oils on canvas in water-leaf frames
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Dimensions
35.90cm wide
132.20cm high
(14.13 inches wide 52.05 inches high)
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Literature:
Bibl Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs by E. Benezit
An article in the Magazine of
Art 1902 by James Greig, comments upon her paintings and illustrates seven (all in black & white) including such titles as
'Rosamond', 'The Miracle of the Roses', 'Rapunzel' & 'The Magic Mantle'. More titles are listed in Christopher Wood's Dictionary of Victorian Painters ('The Choice', 'Bacchante', 'A Legend of Provence'), whilst Simon Houfe's Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators lists her known graphic works.
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Exhibition History:
One of her principal pictures, the Bacchante and Fauns, is in the Art Gallery of Wellington, New Zealand, and the Musee du Luxembourg in Paris has a good portrait of a society lady.
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Description / Expertise
ISOBEL LILIAN GLOAG ROI (1868-1917)
‘Angels in a Basilica - a Diptich’
oils on canvas in water leaf frames
132.3x35.9cms & 133.1x35.9cms
The symbolist painter Isobel Lillian Gloag was born in London in 1865 of Scottish parents from Perthshire. She studied at St John's Wood Art School, the Slade, the studio of M.W.Ridley and finally in Paris, under Raphael Collin.
Returning to London, she took a studio in Notting Hill, exhibiting at the RA from 1893 onwards. Her first exhibit at the Royal Academy was entitled A Raw Recruit. Altogether, she had some 19 works at the RA, including several Pre-Raphaelite-inspired and Symbolist works, most notably The Magic Mantle (also known as The Enchanted Cloak), showing a running girl, nude except for her cloak of peacock feathers, fleeing from onlookers. The same model appears in other of Gloag's works, such as her Rosamond, exhibited at the Academy, 1899.
She also painted mythological pictures, including a Diana disturbed by Actaeon and a Bacchante and Fauns,
As well as painting romantic subject pictures reminiscent of Byam Shaw and Gerald Moira, she was also a consummate portraitist, illustrator and stained glass window designer. She also designed posters and produced flower paintings.
She was elected ROI in 1909, and after a life plagued by ill health, died 5th January 1917.
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