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Study for a Portrait of Mrs. Percy Wyndham
1875
53 x 26.5 cm
oil on canvas
Madeleine Wyndham was a hostess and art collector in the late 19th Century.
The portrait, for which this is a preparatory sketch, was shown at the first exhibition of the Grosvenor Gallery in London in 1877. The gallery was set up opposite the Royal Academy and aimed to show new and exciting artists as opposed to the old establishment figures who exhibited at the Academy.
The sunflower was adopted by fashionable artists and writers such as Oscar Wilde, and soon became a symbol of this new style. By wearing a dress embroidered with sunflowers, Madeleine Wyndham was showing off the fact that she embraced this fresh, original artistic taste.
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