A lovely genre painting of a woman with a dog outside a country house by Sydney Kendrick. A young woman can be seen dressed for a wintry day in a green velvet cloak over a brown dress and holds a fur muffler in her hands. She is shown walking down the snow covered stone steps of a country house followed by a black and tan rough collie.

Sydney Percy Kendrick was born on 17 September, 1874. Little is known about his early life, however he is believed to have studied art in Paris. By the early 1900’s he was living in London where he set up a studio at 3D Warwick Avenue, Maida Vale known as Fulthorpe Studios.

He began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1903 and later at the New Society of Artists in Suffolk Street. Kendrick became known for his genre paintings featuring women and also painted portraits of well-known people including the Duke of Devonshire, Marquess of Lansdowne, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Cecil John Rhodes and Lord Curzon of Kedleston. A number of his works also included dogs, as in this fine example. Many of his works were reproduced as illustrations in magazines.

He was a member of the Chelsea Arts Club and the United Society of Artists and also helped organise a number of art shows including an exhibition of pictures by doctors from the Royal Society of Medicine in June 1924. He lived at Warwick Road until around 1939 when he moved to 12 Woodchurch Road in Hampstead. He remained there until his death following a road accident on 27 August, 1955.

Examples of his work are held by the Bishop Stortford Museum, Eton College, Government Art Collection, Oxford Town Hall, The Rhodes Trust, Royal Airforce Museum, Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists and University of Oxford.

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