* Borthwick (Alfred Edward, 1871-1955). Portrait of Tamara Talbot-Rice, circa 1925, oil on board, signed lower right, additionally inscribed to verso Mrs Talbot Rice, and with artist's name and address A.E. Borthwick, 8 Merchiston Crescent, Edinburgh, 112.5 x 61 cm (44.25 x 24 ins), period gilt moulded frame, glazed (glass cracked to upper right corner)Qty: (1)NOTESRussian émigré Tamara [Elena] Talbot-Rice (née Abelson, 1904–1993) was a scholar of Russian and Byzantine art. After fleeing the Russian Revolution, she studied at Oxford in the early 1920's, where she met her future husband David Talbot-Rice. With a number of other students at Oxford, they formed part of the salon or open house at 37 Broad Street provided by their G.P. Herbert E. Counsell (better known to them as "Doggins"), which included Evelyn Waugh and Harold Acton, later providing inspiration for Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. Tamara and David Talbot-Rice initiated and curated the 1958 exhibition Masterpieces of Byzantine Art at Edinburgh, subsequently also shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum,?the first exhibition of Byzantine Art in Britain. Tamara was the author of many publications on Russian and East European art and culture, including Russian Art (Penguin, 1949); The Scythians (London, Thames and Hudson, 1957); The Seljuks in Asia Minor, (London, Thames and Hudson, 1961); Icons (London, Batchworth, 1962), and Ancient Arts of Central Asia (London : Thames & Hudson, 1965). Alfred Borthwick was a painter in oils and watercolour of portraits, as well as landscapes and religious studies (occasionally including stained glass window design). He trained at Edinburgh, London and the Academie Julian in Paris, settling in Edinburgh. He employed a free, wet style in the manner of the Scottish and Hague schools. Elected ARE 1909, RSW 1911, ARBA 1927, RSA 1938, President of the RSW 1932-51. Exhibited RA 7, RSA 88, GI 33, RSW 93, RI 1, AAS 12, L 8. :iterature: Elizabeth Talbot Rice, editor. Tamara: Memoirs of St. Petersburg, Paris, Oxford and Byzantium (London, Murray, 1996). Herbert E. Counsell. Thirty-seven The Broad, the memoirs of an Oxford doctor (London: Hale, 1943).
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