Blanche's artistic training was brief, but he had enough talent and social connections to become successful. He lacked a consistent, distinct style. I rate him a solid step below the most famous portraitists of his day.
The images below are in approximate, not necessarily exact, chronological order. I hope they provide a sense of Blanche's stylistic evolution over his career.
The earliest dated work I could find.
Patroness of the arts, she also was painted by John Singer Sargent.
The actress, sister of illustrator Aubrey Beardsley.
I do not know who Lucie was.
Another version of the pose -- is this also Lucie?
Colette, the famous writer.
Here Blanche shifts to a kind of modernist-inspired style -- some suggest a Boldini influence, but I'm not so sure.
Mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. The light touch of the previous image is gone, replaced by a darker, harder appearance.
Marjorie Harriet Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey (1883-1946), oldest daughter of the Duke of Rutland. Her sister Diana married Duff Cooper and was the mother of the late author John Julius Norwich.
A poet.
The writer, daughter of Julia Prinsep Stephen, shown above. This is the most modernist-looking portrait of the set, but not of the fashionable 1920s-1930s simplified style.
Also from the 1920s, a nice study of a flapper.
Like Blanche, of the demi-monde. Perhaps painted around 1930.
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