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Flower Girl
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1901
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painting oil paint canvas
31 October 2022
4 October 2021
2021-10-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2022-10-31
Gallery 8
Collection based display
The Flower Girl
support: 838 × 660 mm
frame: 1090 × 1110 × 150 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> 1901
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<p>James Jebusa Shannon painted this work while he and his family were on holiday in Eastbourne. The woman was a flower girl who they met every morning on their way down to the beach. She agreed to sit for Shannon in her ordinary working clothes while nursing her baby. The artist’s daughter, Kitty, recalled that her father told the flower girl to come ‘exactly as you are: baby, basket of flowers, the white blouse with the big black spots and old battered straw hat’.</p>
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<p><b>N01901</b> THE FLOWER GIRL 1900</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘J. J. Shannon’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 33×26 (84×67·5).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1901.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
R.A., 1901 (274); R.A., <i>Late Members</i>, winter 1928 (45).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> F. Rinder, ‘J.J. Shannon, A.R.A.’ in <i>Art Journal</i>, 1901, p.44, repr. p.42; Kitty Shannon, <i>For My Children</i>, 1933, p.104, repr. facing p.137.</p>
<p>Painted while the artist and his family were on holiday at Eastbourne in 1900. The woman was a flower girl whom they met regularly every morning on their way down to the beach; she consented to sit to Shannon in her ordinary working clothes and is shown nursing her baby. The artist's daughter Kitty (<i>op. cit.</i>) recalls that her father told the flower girl to come ‘exactly as you are, baby, basket of flowers, the white blouse with the big black spots and old battered straw hat’.</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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adults baby basket birth to death breast feeding children emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas family flower foliage mother and child objects people plants and flowers society tenderness trader trading and commercial vessels and containers woman work and occupations