Artwork Title: The Open Window, These Are My Jewels

The Open Window, These Are My Jewels, 1937

William Bruce Ellis Ranken

Ranken was born into a wealthy family in Edinburgh and educated at Eton and at the Slade, under Henry Tonks. Socially connected with the rich and famous, his first painting commission was obtained in America through his connections with the artist John Singer Sargent. Based in America during the 1920s, he was in constant demand to paint the cream of New York society including the Whitneys and Vanderbilts. Financially ruined by the Great Depression, in 1935 he was forced to return to London where he painted royalty and aristocracy, as well as their houses. This painting, of a wealthy woman and her children, would have been a private commission during this period. (https://artuk.org/discover/stories/exhibition-in-focus-meeting-modernism-20th-century-art-in-the-russell-cotes-collection)
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