Title
unknown (Woman in Blue) (detail), n.d., Beaverbrook Art
Gallery
Learn to Look at Male Portraits
Anthony Flower & Anna Katrina Zinkeisen
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ANTHONY FLOWER R. Wells, 1824
watercolour on paper
20.9 x 18.4 cm
Gift of Mr. James H. Flower, 1987.
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery
ANNA KATRINA ZINKEISEN Lord Beaverbrook, 1961
oil on canvas
127 x 100.96 cm
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
What we see
Look at these two portraits. What about
these two paintings is similar? What differences do you
notice?
How we feel
How do you feel when you look at these
two men? How do you think it would feel to be them?
What we think
Would this painting tell you what you love
about your grandfather? Or is it a painting to tell you
someone has an important job? Why do you think each painting
was done?
How it was made
What do you see on the tables in front
of them? Why do you think the artist put these things in
the painting? What would you want included in a portrait
painted of you?
About the artist
Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (1901-1976)
was a British portrait painter and muralist. She won a scholarship
to study art at the Royal Academy in London and received
awards for her work. She later designed for Wedgwood, a
prestigious a ceramics manufacturer and contributed murals
to the passenger liners the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth.
