Gorringe's Autumn Fine Sale 3rd October 2023
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Lot 348<br />
§ Mary Fedden OBE R.A. PPRWA (1915-2012)<br />
Portrait of Professor Robert Donington, playing the Viola de Gamba<br />
oil on canvas<br />
signed and dated 1948<br />
60 x 50cm<br />
£10,000 - 15,000<br />
Robert Donington (1907-1990) was educated at St Paul’s School, London, and studied at the University<br />
of Oxford. His expert knowledge of early instruments and the interpretation of pre-classical music owed<br />
much to a period of study with Arnold Dolmetsch at Haslemere, Surrey. He was appointed OBE in the 1979<br />
Birthday Honours.<br />
In the late 1940’s Donington shared a studio with his friend Julian Trevelyan. Here he met Mary Fedden and<br />
although already married became enamoured with her. By repute in an effort to cool his pursuit of Mary his<br />
wife encouraged him to commission work from her and thus place their relationship on a more professional<br />
basis. Mary painted his portrait as well as a view of Robert’s holiday home, a converted fishermans’ hut at<br />
Cadgwith. He also acquired a further work from her; ‘The Lion and the Lamb’. As history records regardless<br />
of Robert’s affections, Mary married Julian.<br />
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