K M HANDYSIDE
In a letter from Stanhope FORBES to his mother (dated 7 July 1904), he refers to Mrs Handyside as a charming elderly lady from New Zealand, though originally from Ireland, a fine handsome woman and as active as any of the young ones. She was also, after some years, to be a pupil of Frank Proschwitzry FREYBURG in St Ives (c1910).
In the 1937 Exhibition at NAG Forbes exhibited a Portrait of Mrs Handyside, but it was not for sale. Tovey displays a small colour plate of Mrs Handyside's accomplished work Girl with Sticks (courtesy of W H Lane Fine Art) on p116 of St Ives: A Social History. However, a photo purporting to be Mrs Handyside, appearing on page 157 of the same volume, appears certainly a fine handsome woman, though not one who could be described as 'elderly'. This is dated c1910 or six years later.
media
Painter in oils
works and access
Likeness of the Artist: Portrait of Mrs Handyside (Stanhope Forbes, 1937); Photo likeness? Tovey (p157)
Works include: The Daisy Chain; Corn Stooks (1911); Young Girl carrying a bundle of sticks
references
Forbes letters (7 Jul 1904) (Tate Britain Archive)
Green (2002) Posing the Model;
Hardie (1995) 100 Years in Newlyn: Diary of a Gallery
(2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall
Tovey (2009) St Ives: Social History
Whybrow (1994) St Ives (1901-10 list)
Pamela Gerrish Nunn, "A Note on Mrs Katie Handyside”, The Flagstaff, no 32, Winter 2013: 23-25;