Juliet Kathleen Somers Pannett MBE (English)
1911 – 2005
Field-Marshall The Lord Harding G.C.B., C.B.E., charcoal, signed l/l, inscribed l/r, 16″ x 11.5″
Estimate: $300. Offers invited.
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Fully signed, and dated verso 26th June 1961. Very good condition, with only a little light foxing at the very top and bottom. Not examined out of the frame.
The portrait painter Juliet Pannett was born in Hove in 1911. Throughout her long and prolific career she has recorded the faces of the great and good including many Prime Ministers, politicians, lawyers, judges, academics and musicians.
Pannett studied at Brighton College of Art in the 1920s and received her first portrait commission at the age of eighteen from Sussex County Magazine. She was employed to travel around the county drawing local characters, from blacksmiths and rabbit catchers to horse-cab drivers and Crimean war-veterans.
In 1934 Pannett was elected a member of the Society of Graphic Artists and began teaching at a girl’s school near Crawley. She acquired her first studio in a mews in Hove and began her foreign travels with trips to Spain, Germany and Italy; a passion that was to last a lifetime. Forced to give up painting at the beginning of the Second World War, Pannett returned to it with enthusiasm in subsequent years and from 1957-64 was Special Artist to the Illustrated London News.
In 1989, at the age of 78, Pannett was commissioned to paint the Queen at Buckingham Palace. She has exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and was awarded an MBE in 1993.
Twenty-one drawings by this artist are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Also by this artist:
Glyndebourne Archive Collection
The Fleming Collection
The Devonshire and Dorset Regimental Charitable Trust
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