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My Ladys Garden
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1899
actions: postures and motions
adults
animals: birds
architecture
bowl
clothing and personal items
dress
England
garden
garden structures
individuals: female
Kensington, Holland House
landscape
lawn
named individuals
objects
peacock
people
places
portraits
standing
UK countries and regions
UK London
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woman
wooded
Young-Hunter, Mary
<p>The model for this work was the artist’s first wife, and fellow painter, Mary Young-Hunter. The couple met as students at the Royal Academy and married the year this was painted. The setting is the grounds of Holland House, in Kensington, London. Art critic and painter A.L. Baldry described John and Mary Young-Hunter as ‘new Pre-Raphaelites’, who explored imaginative and symbolic subjects</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2020</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
2 April 2015 – 25 September 2022
2022-09-25
28 March 2015
2015-03-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2015-04-02
Gallery 8
Collection based display
8 June 2021 – 14 January 2024
2024-01-14
12 July 2023 – 2 October 2023
2023-10-02
2023-07-12
National Art Center (Tokyo, Japan)
26 October 2023 – 14 January 2024
2024-01-14
2023-10-26
Nakanoshima Museum of Art (Osaka, Japan)
2021-06-08
Light
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My Lady’s Garden
support: 1067 × 1822 mm
frame: 1570 × 2335 × 170 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1899
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<p>The model for this work was the artist’s first wife, and fellow painter, Mary Young-Hunter. The couple met as students at the Royal Academy and married the year this was painted. The setting is the grounds of Holland House, in Kensington, London. Art critic and painter A.L. Baldry described John and Mary Young-Hunter as ‘new Pre-Raphaelites’, who explored imaginative and symbolic subjects</p>
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2020-09-17T00:00:00
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<p><b>N01698</b> MY LADY'S GARDEN 1899
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<br/>Inscr. ‘J. Young Hunter 1899’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 42×71 3/4 (107×182).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1899.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1899 (997).
<br/><i>Lit:</i>
A. L. Baldry, ‘The Work of Mr and Mrs J. Young Hunter’ in <i>Studio</i>, XXVIII, 1903, pp.271–9.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Art Journal</i>, 1899, p. 178; <i>Royal Academy Pictures</i>, 1899, p.57.</p>
<p>Painted in the grounds of Holland House, Kensington. The artist's first wife Mary (1872–1947) posed for the lady. The picture is cited in the Introduction to <i>Royal <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/academy" title="Glossary definition for 'Academy'"><span>Academy</span></a> Pictures</i>, 1899, with other imaginative <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvases</span></a> by the younger men as ‘typical examples of the modern spirit and as marking plainly the direction in which youthful fancy is disposed to tend’. A. L. Baldry described the school to which the artist and his wife belonged as ‘the new <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/pre-raphaelite" title="Glossary definition for 'Pre-Raphaelite'"><span>Pre-Raphaelites</span></a>’ and said that it had grown up as a reaction against the realistic belief taught a quarter of a century before. According to him ‘My Lady's Garden’ was the first picture to show that this romantic tendency had gained a hold over the artist.</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, I
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-23T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults animals: birds architecture bowl clothing and personal items dress England garden garden structures individuals: female Kensington, Holland House landscape lawn named individuals objects peacock people places portraits standing UK countries and regions UK London vessels and containers woman wooded Young-Hunter, Mary