The Twins (Winifred and Leonora Reid)

The Twins (Winifred and Leonora Reid, b.1911)
Thomas Bowman Garvie (1859–1944)
Laing Art Gallery

Date 1920

Medium oil on canvas

Measurements H 124.5 x W 86.4 cm

Accession number TWCMS : G2347

Acquisition method bequeathed by Mrs Reid, 1936

Newcastle twins Winifred and Leonora Reid are aged nine in this portrait. Their embroidered white dresses are in the fashions of the 1920s. Teh sitters were pained by the leading Newcastle portrait painter Thomas Garvie. The picture’s formal quality is partly sue to the artist’s careful control of colours, which are limited to cream, and soft red and blue.