Not on display
- Artist
- Sir William Blake Richmond 1842–1921
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unconfirmed: 914 × 527 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the artist's descendants 1995
- Reference
- T06966
Display caption
The meaning and source of this painting of an enslaved woman and her child are obscure. It may relate to French Orientalist paintings of captive women, a subject perhaps inspired by William Richmond’s visit to the Middle East in 1885. Slavery also became a popular subject in the 1880s for British painters as increasing numbers of them chose to study art in France. The outbreak of a number of moral panics in the 1880s, focusing on the victimisation of women and children by abusive men, also gave this type of painting contemporary significance.
Gallery label, July 2007
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