Michael Gilbery, Portrait Of Mrs L Gordon people and surviving family archives

and surviving family archives

which protrude through mottled water

its orange roof creating an accent in the view

Note also the orange highlights on the shore and sail

Held in a splendid regilded 18th-century gilt frame

Michael Gilbery, Portrait Of Mrs L Gordon people and surviving family archivesThis engaging mid 20th century oil painting by accomplished London painter Michael Gilbery (1913 2000) depicts Mrs L Gordon. It was shown at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and represents the mature phase of an artist whose reputation was built upon sympathetic characterisation. The sitter, Mrs L. Gordon, is shown seated comfortably in an elegant carved chair, her hands gently folded in her lap. She meets the viewer with a composed, faintly