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Two Sisters
MORRIS, Sir Cedric (1889 - 1982)
Date: 1935
Media: oil on canvas
Size: 76 x 63.5 cm
Acquired: 2007; assistance from the Derek Williams Trust
Accession Number: NMW A 29292
Mrs. Frances Byng Stamper (left) and her sister Miss Caroline Byng Lucas were important supporters of the visual arts in Wales in the 1930s. Morris’s portraits are known for their unflinching scrutiny of character. Not surprisingly the sisters were said to be unhappy with this unflattering portrait. When Morris exhibited the painting in 1979 he called it The English Upper Classes.
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I new these ladies later in there life’s as they lived at the Shelley’s hotel in lewes which aunt and uncle owened ,and I have some of their paintings and two sculptures and some of their pottery items which my sister has ,as their property was left to my aunt in 1967 when the second sister died ,, millers and it’s contents , we do have a couple of paintings of theirs which we would like to sell ,,, regards emma