Ralph Peacock

The Sisters

1900

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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

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