ALEEN ELIZABETH AKED

"Untitled: Still Life with Egg and Teacup", signed lower right and dated (19)36, oil on canvas, 40.6 x 50.8cm (16 x 20in); Provenance: Cowley Abbott, Toronto; present London collection; note the canvas is affixed to a wood stretcher but unframed; Aleen Elizabeth Aked, English/Canadian, 1907-2003; the artist moved to Ontario at the age of three, and at fourteen won the Arthur Lismer Junior Course Scholarship at the Ontario College of Art; she studied under many prominent artists of the day, including several members of the Group of Seven, J.W. Beatty and Yvonne McKague Housser; her classmates included Doris McCarthy and Isabel McLaughlin