Lot 36
£1,875
Auction: 23 October 2020 from 10:00 BST
signed (lower right), oil on canvas
Dorothy Randolph Byard was an American poet, artist and writer. Born in Germantown, PA, America in 1885, she was a member of the Randolph family of Philadelphia who were instrumental in the establishment of Princeton University.
Byard studied at the Academie Julien in Paris, and became a member of the Silvermine Group of Artists (1907-20) and the Silvermine Art Guild. She married John Kenneth Byard, a lawyer, banker and dealer in American antiques and together they owned over one hundred acres in the Silvermine part of Norwalk, CT.