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Cider House Galleries Ltd
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TUDOR ST.GEORGE TUCKER (1862-1906)
Portrait of Gertie Millar (1878 - 1952) Looking at her Dress in a Mirror
( England
1900 to 1906
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Dimensions
11.50inch wide
21.50inch high
(29.21 cm wide 54.61 cm high)
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Literature:
K60612
PORTRAIT OF GERTIE MILLAR (1878 – 1952)
LOOKING AT HER DRESS IN A MIRROR
TUDOR ST. GEORGE TUCKER
Exhibited from 1900 – 1906 Signed & inscribed
Oil on canvas 21 ½ x11 ½ inches
Tucker was a figure and landscape painter.
It is known he lived in London during 1900 and 1906, one address being 31 Paulton Square, Chelsea and at Hayes Middlesex during 1902.
He did exhibit his work, 5 at the Royal Academy;
2 at the Royal Society of Artists Birmingham; 2 at the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool; 1 at the New Gallery and 1 at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.
Bibl: British Artists 1880 – 1940
Victorian Painters – Christopher Wood
Gertie Millar was born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1878. She grew up to be tall, thin and attractive with dark hair and large limpid eyes. She was also tough, determined and ambitious. Her stage career began as a singer and dancer in the many music halls of Yorkshire. Later she moved to London where she was soon topping the variety bills, earning substantial sums and attracting much attention.
In 1924 her husband George Edwardes died, later she married William Humble Ward, the second Earl of Dudley 1867 – 1932. Gertie Millar, the working class girl from Yorkshire who grew up to be one of the best loved stars and most photographed women of the Edwardian era, had become Lady Dudley.
Gertie Millar, Lady Dudley, died in Chiddingford, England on April 24, 1952.
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