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Dame Madge Kendal
Presented by Dame Madge Kendall 1928
actions: postures and motions
actor
adults
arts and entertainment
chair
clothing and personal items
dame
dress
furnishings
hat, cap
head in hand / hands
individuals: female
Kendal, Madge
named individuals
necklace
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portraits
ring
royalty and social rank
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woman, old
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
19 November 2019 – 23 February 2020
2020-02-23
19 November 2019 – 23 February 2020
2020-02-23
2019-11-19
Watts Gallery - Artists’ Village (Compton, UK)
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2019-11-19
William Orpen: Method & Mastery
Loan-out
Dame Madge Kendal
support: 1020 × 870 mm
frame: 1255 × 1105 × 95 mm
Presented by Dame Madge Kendall 1928
<p><b>N04400</b> DAME MADGE KENDAL <i>c.</i> 1927–8</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Orpen’ t.l.
<br/>Canvas, 40 1/4×34 1/4 (102×87); painted area 40×33 3/4 (101·5×86).
<br/>Presented by Dame Madge Kendal 1928.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1928 (15); R.A., <i>Late Members</i>, winter 1933 (129); Manchester, April–May 1933 (56).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Konody and Dark, 1932, pp.222 and 274, repr. pl.61; St John Ervine in <i>The Dictionary of National Biography, 1931–40</i>, 1949, p.504.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Royal Academy Illustrated</i>, 1928, p.34.</p>
<p>Madge Kendal, the actress (1848–1935), was one of a theatrical family, her father being an actor-manager and her brother Thomas William Robertson the author of <i>Caste</i>. She first appeared on the stage at the age of six in 1854 and retired in 1908. In 1869 she married the actor-manager William Hunter Kendal. She was made D.B.E. in 1926 and G.B.E. in 1927. This <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a>, painted in her eightieth year, was presented to her by Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson on behalf of a number of old friends.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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2004-10-06T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions actor adults arts and entertainment chair clothing and personal items dame dress furnishings hat, cap head in hand / hands individuals: female Kendal, Madge named individuals necklace objects people portraits ring royalty and social rank sitting woman, old work and occupations