- Artist
- Thomas Benjamin Kennington 1856–1916
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 1016 × 762 mm
frame: 1375 × 1115 × 150 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894
- Reference
- N01560
Catalogue entry
N01560 ORPHANS 1885
Inscr. ‘T. B. Kennington. 85’ b.r.
Canvas, 40×30 (102×76).
Tate Gift 1894.
Coll: Purchased by Henry Tate from the artist.
Exh:
R.O.I., December 1885–January 1886 (48, repr. from woodcut), as ‘Poverty’; R.A., 1886 (741); St Jude's School, Whitechapel, 1887.
Lit: Walter Armstrong, ‘The Henry Tate Collection II’ in Art Journal, 1893, p.122, repr. p.66 from engraving by J. C. Griffiths.
Repr: Sir Edward J. Poynter, The National Gallery, III, 1900, p.139.
The subject may have been suggested by Murillo.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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