Erna Hoppe Kinross
(Hamburg 1878 - 1964 London)
Girl in a Wood, c. 1910 *SOLD*
oil on panel
21.2 x 27 cm.
entitled verso 'Girl in a Wood'
Provenance
the Family of the Artists Grace English and Erna Hoppe-Kinross
Erna Hoppe Kinross grew up in Hamburg where she was encouraged to study art from a young age, studying in Paris from 1906-1914. There she met her English husband, Charles Kinross, and they were married in 1906. By then she had already established a name for herself, exhibiting at the Societé Nationale des Beaux Arts.
The couple lived in Paris but had a holiday home in Giverny where they became friends with the Impressionist painter Claude Monet.
The couple moved to England in 1915 where Charles’s business was based. One of her paintings was published in English Colour Magazine in 1919, vol. II, no. 4, but the subject ('Orchard Girl'), was clearly based on a French scene, as indeed is the present work.