Sir William Rothenstein

Barnett Freedman

1925

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Pallant House Gallery (Chichester, UK): The Life and Work of Barnett Freedman

Artist: Sir William Rothenstein 1872–1945
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Support: 756 × 508 mm
frame: 953 × 712 × 75 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1943
Reference: N05553

Catalogue entry

N05553 BARNETT FREEDMAN 1925

Not inscribed.
Canvas, 30×20 (76×51).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1943.
Exh: Lefevre Galleries, July 1927 (10), as ‘Study of a Student’; Venice Biennale, 1928 (British Pavilion, 110); Goupil Gallery, May 1929 (59); Anthology, French Gallery, 1931 (35); International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, October–December 1934 (108), and San Francisco, 1935 (132); Leicester Galleries, October 1938 (12), and provincial tour; R.A., 1944 (553); Tate Gallery, May–June 1950 (54).
Repr: Ugo Nebbia, La XVI Esposizione Internazionale d' Arte, Venezia, Bergamo, 1928, pl.211; John Rothenstein, The Tate Gallery, 1958, p.108.

Barnett Freedman (1901–58), the painter and illustrator, was a student at the Royal College of Art when the artist was Principal (Since Fifty, 1939, p.24). This is one of several portraits of students painted c. 1925–30. Another, dated 1928, is reproduced in the Studio, CI, 1931, facing p.231 (in colour).

For a preliminary drawing see T00569.

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