Pair of Pencil Portraits by Margaret Gere

A pair of charming pencil portraits by Margaret Gere showing Katherine and Christopher Proudman in gilt wood carved frames. Margaret Gere (1878-1965) was a founder member of the Birmingham Group of Artists-Craftsmen. She was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire and was the half-sister of the artist Charles March Gere, studying under him from 1897 at Birmingham Municipal School of Art and later at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She showed with and was a member of the New English Art Club and Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and held her first joint exhibition with her brother at the Carfax Gallery in 1912. Joining other members of the Birmingham and Cotswold groups in many joint exhibitions she also held a number of one-man shows both in London and Cheltenham. She lived with her brother Charles in Painswick Gloucestershire where they were among the earliest members of the Cotswold Group.