Anna Zinkeisen (1901-1976) Portrait of Anna Christina MacKay, head and shoulders portrait, looking to dexter, wearing a pink roll neck top with white cardigan and hair in a contemporary Pixie crop style, signed lower right, oil on canvas, 51 x 41 cm, frame 61 x 52 cm

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Notes: Anna Christina Mackay was a relation to Anna Zinkeisen and the artist painted her on a number of occasions

Zinkeisen was a Scottish painter, she and her sister Doris were popular society artists having won scholarshiops to study at the Royal Academy Schools and often worked together on murals including for the passenger liners RMS Queen Mary and RMS Queen Elizabeth. Anna chose to specialise in portraiture and murals and was particularly known for her society portraits, capturing the elegance and poise of her subjects.

Provenance: Gifted by the artist to the sitter who was related to the artist, thence by descent.