Louis Welden Hawkins (1848-1910), Presumed Portrait Of Ellen Andrée, Oil On Canvas, Signed

Louis Welden HAWKINS
Stuttgart 1849 - Paris 1910

Presumed portrait of Ellen Andrée
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
54 x 45.5 cm canvas
75 x 66 cm frame
Very beautiful frame from the Napoleon III period
Good general condition, we note a small restoration at the top left at the level of the rocky background.
We thank Madam Cécile Convert, the artist's spécialist, to confirming the authenticicty of our painting.

Son of an English father and an Austrian mother, Louis Welden Hawkins acquired French nationality in 1895. In Paris, he was a student of William Bouguereau, Jules Lefèbre and Gustave Boulanger. From 1881 to 1891, he participated in the Salons of the Society of French Artists, the Salon de la Rose-Croix and the Libre Esthétique in Brussels. Close to the avant-garde and symbolist literary movements, he frequented Jean Lorrain, Paul Adam, Robert de Montesquiou but also Stéphane Mallarmé. Hawkins practices a mystical and symbolist art, the artist shows himself to be an ingenious portraitist and a subtle landscaper with impressionist accents. Our painting is part of this register, with its harmony of brown and the golden reflections of the sun in the hair of this woman, from which emanates a great serenity. According to Cécile Convert, a specialist of the artist, our portrait could be that of the actress Ellen Andrée, who was the muse, among others, of Renoir, Degas, Manet, and mainly known for having been the model of Rolla de Gervex, around which a scandal broke out.