- Artist
- Sir William Orpen 1878–1931
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 508 × 406 mm
frame: 682 × 580 × 75 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Mrs Coutts Michie through the Art Fund in memory of the George McCulloch Collection 1913
- Reference
- N02940
Catalogue entry
N02940 THE MIRROR 1900
Inscr. ‘W Orpen 1900’ b.r.
Canvas, 20×16 (51×40·5).
Presented by Mrs Coutts Michie through the National Art-Collections Fund in memory of the George McCulloch Collection 1913.
Coll: George McCulloch, sold Christie's, 29 May 1913 (181), bt. Wallis; Mrs Coutts Michie.
Exh: N.E.A.C., winter 1900 (50); George McCulloch Collection, R.A., winter 1909 (270); R.A., Late Members, winter 1933 (34); Birmingham, March–April 1933 (2).
Lit: Konody and Dark, 1932, pp.141–2 and 265, repr. pl.29; John Rothenstein, Modern English Painters: Sickert to Smith, 1952, pp.217–18.
Repr:
N.A.C.F. Report 1913, 1914, facing p.54; Pickle, 1923, pl.3.
The model is Emily Scobel. The artist and another figure are reflected in the mirror.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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