Curator Conversation: Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Long, by Margaret Willliams

Sunday, October 27
Curator Conversation: Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Long, by Margaret Willliams
2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Admission is Pay What You Can
Library of Corinthian Hall

Join the Museum’s Curator of Collections Lisa Shockley for a guided conversation around two portraits painted by Welsh artist Margaret Lindsay Williams.

After the death of Ella Long in 1928, Robert A. Long commissioned well-known portrait painter Margaret Williams to paint portraits of both Ella and himself. While Ella’s was painted from a photograph, it is believed that Mr. Long posed at least once for his. At the time, Williams was one of the most distinguished painters in Great Britain. She painted the first-ever portraits of Prince (now King) Charles and Princess Anne, as well as at least five of Queen Elizabeth II. Her portrait of U. S. President Warren G. Harding is the most commonly reproduced image of him to date.

Paintings
“Ella Long” and “R. A. Long”
By Margaret Lindsay Williams
England, London
1919-1930
Oil on canvas
L1965.E2.1 and .2

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