The Garden (c.1899) by Ethel Walker Framed or Unframed:Standard Frame and surrender - a pose

and surrender - a pose often coded as feminine

This beautifully tender moment is rendered in Sylvester's usual luscious buttery paint

and presence

His practice centres on male figures

this feathered beauty feels like coded self-invention: polished

The Garden (c.1899) by Ethel Walker Framed or Unframed:Standard Frame and surrender - a posePainted around 1899, The Garden shows an unidentified woman absorbed in a lush, sunlit world of leaves and flowers. There is no known lover or muse attached to the sitter; the intimacy comes from Walkers gaze. At a time when women artists were still fighting for authority, Walker made female presence feel self possessed, sensory and central. Later recognised for a lifes work shaped by women sitters and female nudes, this early garden scene feels less