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Lot 339
Allen (Daphne, 1899-1985). A collection of original artwork, approx. 260 pencil sketches, pen and ink drawings, and watercolours, mostly religious, mythological and fairy subjects, approx. 390 x 280 mm and smaller, together with a number of old newspaper cuttings relating to the artist. Daphne Constance Allen was born at Stamford Hill, London, and was taught to paint by her parents. Her father, publisher Hugh Allen, was a well-known painter himself. Daphne wrote and illustrated two books as a child: 'A Child's Visions' (1912) and 'The Birth of the Opal' (1913), and showed a hundred of her works at her first exhibition - at the Dudley Galleries - at the tender age of 13. Her precosity caused a sensation in London, and debate raged over whether or not she was especially talented. She was hailed by many as a 'child genius', and art critic Mr. C. Lewis Hind wrote in the introduction to her first book: 'As a bird sings, so these drawings were made - merely from an impulse for expression. They show no sign of effort, because they are all done in joy, without self-consciousness... I can only express my astonishment that such facility, imagination, and variety should proceed from a child'. Others, however, were less delighted with the young artist's talent and celebrity. For example, Anthony Ludovici wrote: It is bad enough that a pack of hydrocephalous and gushing adults should be found to every attractive or moderately talented child in the British Isles... but when a lot of grown-up men, with Sir Claude Phillips at their head, join their hymns of praise to the rest, and write pompously about this child's nursery productions, as if they really constituted a serious event in the art world, it is time to protest... " ('The New Age', October 9th, 1913). Ultimately Daphne Allen defied both sets of critics and went on to neither wide-acclaim nor obscurity. She became a reasonable artist, who painted and drew mainly fairies and religious subjects, and worked as an illustrator for many magazines, including 'The Illustrated London News', 'The Sketch', and 'The Tatler'. Much of the work here appears to be the product of her earliest years, and as such is an interesting archive showing in some measure the development of her work. (a folder)
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A 19th Century "Bristol" blue glass rolling pin decorated with printed transfers of sailing ships above a ribbon script "May Peace & Plenty on our Nation smile and trade with commerce bless the British Isles" with hand enamelled highlights, together with a similar period opal example, largest 38cm.
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