Ralph Peacock

The Sisters

1900

Image released under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported)

License this image

Not on display
Artist
Ralph Peacock 1868–1946
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
Frame: 1675 x 1275 x 114 mm
support: 1300 x 900 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Presented by the artist 1900
Reference
N01772

Catalogue entry

N01772 THE SISTERS 1900

Inscr. ‘Ralph Peacock 1900.’ b.r.
Canvas, 51 1/4×35 1/2 (130×90).
Presented by the artist 1900.
Exh: R.A., 1900 (467).
Lit: Frank Rinder, ‘The Royal Academy of 1900’ in Art Journal, 1900, p.182, repr. p.165.
Repr: Royal Academy Pictures, 1900, p.147.

The elder sister reading from an open book was Miss Edith Brignall, who married the artist in the following year. The younger sister, Miss Ethel Brignall, married Harold A. Titcomb, an American mining engineer, in 1908, and also forms the subject of N01672.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II

Features

Charles Wellington Furse, ‘Diana of the Uplands’ 1903–4

Forgotten Faces

Caroline Corbeau-Parsons

Forgotten Faces comprises seventeen portraits or figure paintings and three sculptures ranging between 1896 – a year before the foundation of ...

Explore

You might like

Left Right
Philip Wilson Steer, ‘Mrs Cyprian Williams and her Two Little Girls’ 1891

Philip Wilson Steer Mrs Cyprian Williams and her Two Little Girls

1891
John Singer Sargent, ‘Mrs Carl Meyer and her Children’ 1896

John Singer Sargent Mrs Carl Meyer and her Children

1896
John Singer Sargent, ‘Ena and Betty, Daughters of Asher and Mrs Wertheimer’ 1901

John Singer Sargent Ena and Betty, Daughters of Asher and Mrs Wertheimer

1901
John Henry F. Bacon, ‘Michael Lewis Myers’ 1906

John Henry F. Bacon Michael Lewis Myers

1906
Thomas Dugdale, ‘The Red Jacket’ exhibited 1924

Thomas Dugdale The Red Jacket

exhibited 1924
John Singer Sargent, ‘Hylda, Almina and Conway, Children of Asher Wertheimer’ 1905

John Singer Sargent Hylda, Almina and Conway, Children of Asher Wertheimer

1905
George Spencer Watson, ‘Hilda and Maggie’ 1911

George Spencer Watson Hilda and Maggie

1911
John Singer Sargent, ‘Professor Ingram Bywater’ exhibited 1901

John Singer Sargent Professor Ingram Bywater

exhibited 1901
Flora Lion, ‘My Mother’ 1909

Flora Lion My Mother

1909
John Singer Sargent, ‘The Misses Hunter’ 1902

John Singer Sargent The Misses Hunter

1902
Harold Gilman, ‘Edwardian Interior’ c.1907

Harold Gilman Edwardian Interior

c.1907
Dame Ethel Walker, ‘The Artist’s Stepmother, Mrs Arthur Walker’ c.1899

Dame Ethel Walker The Artist’s Stepmother, Mrs Arthur Walker

c.1899
Henry Tonks, ‘Summer’ 1908

Henry Tonks Summer

1908
Frank Huddlestone Potter, ‘A Quiet Corner: Miss E.A. Whelan’ c.1887

Frank Huddlestone Potter A Quiet Corner: Miss E.A. Whelan

c.1887
Sir Hubert Von Herkomer, ‘Portrait of Lady Tate’ c.1899

Sir Hubert Von Herkomer Portrait of Lady Tate

c.1899