WYATT
Irene (1903 – 1987)
"Summer
Flowers"
Oil
Painting on Canvas. Signed. 24" x 20" IMAGE
Irene Wyatt was born in Acton, West London, the daughter of art
teacher and designer Lionel Wyatt. She
was a portrait, flower and landscape painter.
From 1921 to 1924 she attended the Royal Academy Schools after
preliminary training at Hammersmith Art School and Regent Street
Polytechnic School of Art. Her teachers
included Walter Sickert, Ernest Jackson and Richard Jack. In 1927 she married the sculptor John Smith,
but they split in 1938. From the late
1920s Irene Wyatt showed at the Royal Academy and the Leicester, Goupil and Redfern
Galleries and she had two solo exhibitions at Beaux Arts Gallery between 1934
and 1936. She also exhibited at New English Art Club. During 1938 she toured South Africa, having an exhibition in Johannesburg. In the 1950s she often visited Spain. As well as a solo show at Hanover Gallery,
she had one at Ditchling Gallery, Sussex in 1962 and at the Chenil
Gallery in 1987. Piano Nobile Fine
Paintings, Richmond held a retrospective exhibition in 1990. She lived in London in 1927 and Hurstpierpoint, Sussex in 1929 and from 1971 to
1987 she lived in Devon.
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