A delightful watercolour miniature by renowned Royal Society of Miniature Painters member Lucy Elizabeth Pierce.
Still life of flowers in etched red glass vase, beautifully painted in superb, tiny detail and colour. Signed lower left and complete with small, elegant gilt frame with moulded detail. Paper label to verso with artists Enfield address. Excellent, strong colour and condition, preserved under glass.
About the artist:
Lucy Elizabeth Pierce was born in Enfeld, Middlesex, England in 1887 and studied at Hackney Institute in London; and under Henry Tonks and Fred Brown at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.
Pierce subsequently worked as a painter and Limoges enameller, and from 1910 onwards exhibited at the Dudley Gallery, London Salon, Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists, Society of Women Artists, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours, and Walker’s Gallery in London; the Royal Scottish academy in Edinburgh; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; and at Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.
Pierce was elected an an Associate of the Royal Miniature Society (ARMS) in 1921; Associate of the Society of Women Artists (ASWA) in 1925; Associate of the Royal Society of British Artists (ARBA) in 1926; and a full member of the Royal Miniature Society (RMS) in 1937.
Frame 17cm height x 11cm wide, 1.5cm deep.
Picture 10cm x 6.4cm.
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