- Artist
- Dame Ethel Walker 1861–1951
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 1118 × 864 mm
frame: 1365 × 1110 × 95 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Bequeathed by the artist 1951
- Reference
- N06028
Catalogue entry
N06028 THE ARTIST'S STEPMOTHER (MRS ARTHUR WALKER) c. 1899
Inscr. on the back ‘My Stepmother’.
Canvas, 44×34 (112×86); a further 3 (7·5) of painted canvas is turned over at the right, 1 5/8 (4) on left, 2 1/4 (5·75) at top, and 2 1/2 (6·5) at bottom.
Bequeathed by the artist 1951.
Exh: N.E.A.C., summer 1918 (85); Ethel Walker, Charles Ginner, Louise Pickard, Goupil Gallery, January 1924 (117); R.A., 1950 (499); Ethel Walker, Frances Hodgkins, Gwen John, Tate Gallery, May–June 1952 (2), and Arts Council tour, 1952 (2).
An oil study for this portrait, on board, 13 1/4×9 1/2 in., was sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1963 (42), bt. M. Millus. It shows the subject standing full-length against a more detailed background of furniture and curtains. Her hands appear to be clasped together as she rests them on the chair back. Another portrait of the artist's stepmother (29 1/2×24 1/2 in.) belonged in 1957 to Mrs E. Denham White.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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