Sarah Colegrave

MARY CAROLINE HALHED STEVENS (1881-1962)
The Fencing Master (1909 United Kingdom)

Artists/Makers/Factories

MARY CAROLINE HALHED STEVENS (1881-1962)

Medium

Oil on canvas

Signed/Inscribed/Dated

Inscribed; signed on the stretcher

Width 56.00cm wide [22.05 inches wide]
Height 76.00cm high [29.92 inches high]

Description / Expertise

Mary Caroline Halhed Stevens was born on 22 February 1881 in Southport, Lancashire. In about 1900 her family moved to Oxford where he father was appointed General Inspector of the Local Government Board. Caroline Stevens studied at the St John’s Wood School of Art and returned to Oxfordshire where she maintained a studio in the city at 7 St Aldates and became a regular and frequent exhibitor with the Oxford Art Society, being elected a member of the society in 1913. She lived in Eynsham and later at Great Milton, Oxfordshire.

Painted in 1909 when Stevens was studying at the St John’s Wood School of Art.