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Percy Shakespeare:
Morning Exercise, Self Portrait, 1934
(ref: 8637)
Oil on canvas

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Provenance: The Artist's Studio

Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.313.

Having achieved success at the 1933 Royal Academy Percy Shakespeare again set his sights on the Summer Exhibition, painting a dramatic self-portrait entitled Morning Exercise. Accepted for the Summer Show in 1934 Shakespeare must been disappointed when it was crowded out in the hang. The Express and Star however reviewed  it favourably stating that it was, 'His best work.....a  finely painted and lively portrait of a young man in underclothes performing his daily dozen .

The setting was the artists bedroom at, Wren's Nest, Dudley, which also doubled as his studio.