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.