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Businesswoman, suffragette and political campaigner Margaret Haig Thomas has been described as one of Wales’ most remarkable figures. Lady Rhondda was raised in Llanwern, the daughter of coal industrialist David Thomas and his wife Margaret. She used her privileged position in society to promote left-wing politics, feminism, literature and the arts. In 1920, she founded 'Time and Tide', a weekly magazine promoting feminist and left-wing causes, with a progressive all-female board. One of Wales’ best-known suffragettes, she was imprisoned and went on hunger strike after attempting to blow up a letterbox in 1913 in a campaign led by the Women’s Social and Political Union. Equally notorious for her business acumen, she inherited her father’s empire in 1918 and became the first female president of the Institute of Directors.
Alice Mary Burton was born in France but spent her career in Britain and lived in north Wales in 1913. She was best known as a portrait painter and was invited to paint a portrait of Lady Rhondda, to be presented at a special dinner in March 1933. The portrait presented at the dinner is now lost, but photographs show its striking similarity to this portrait, which may have been painted around the same time.
Title
Margaret Haig Thomas (1883–1958), Viscountess Rhondda
Date
c.1930
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 95.5 x W 87 cm
Accession number
NMW A 24898
Acquisition method
purchased with the assistance of the Derek Williams Trust, 2016
Work type
Painting