Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
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Chantrey Bequest
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/annie-louisa-swynnerton-540" aria-label="More by Annie Louisa Swynnerton" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Annie Louisa Swynnerton</a>
New Risen Hope
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1924
children
emotional states and conditions
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
gender
girl
hope
hope - young girl
people
social comment
society
symbols and personifications
<p>Swynnerton was a maverick figure in the London exhibitions of the 1890s. She aimed at an art of serious meaning and visual richness which showed a woman's mind and eye at work. Her subjects, rendered robustly and vividly, engage the viewer directly. Her work has an immediacy that was thrilling to admirers and irksome to detractors, as both groups recognised Swynnerton's independence from artistic conventions.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2010</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
19 April 2004 – 11 June 2006
2006-06-11
19 April 2004 – 11 June 2006
2006-06-11
2004-04-19
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2004-04-19
Cult of Youth
Collection based display
9 October 2009 – 23 February 2010
2010-02-23
9 October 2009 – 23 February 2010
2010-02-23
2009-10-09
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-10-09
Independently Modern
Collection based display
19 May 2012 – 2 December 2012
2012-12-02
19 May 2012 – 2 December 2012
2012-12-02
2012-05-19
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2012-05-19
Victorian Sentimentality
Collection based display
23 February 2018 – 6 January 2019
2019-01-06
23 February 2018 – 6 January 2019
2019-01-06
2018-02-23
Manchester Art Gallery (Manchester, UK)
http://www.manchestergalleries.org
2018-02-23
Painting Light and Hope: Annie Swynnerton (1844-1933)
Loan-out
31 October 2022 – 24 September 2023
2023-09-24
31 October 2022
2022-10-31
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2022-10-31
Annie Swynnerton
Collection based display
New Risen Hope
support: 570 × 519 × 150 mm
frame: 775 × 730 × 120 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> 1924
<p>Swynnerton was a maverick figure in the London exhibitions of the 1890s.  She aimed at an art of serious meaning and visual richness which showed a woman's mind and eye at work.  Her subjects, rendered robustly and vividly, engage the viewer directly.  Her work has an immediacy that was thrilling to admirers and irksome to detractors, as both groups recognised Swynnerton's independence from artistic conventions.
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Display caption
2010-02-18T00:00:00
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This work appears to have been painted on a much larger piece of canvas from which it has been cut and then paste lined onto a linen lining canvas to allow stretching. This may well have been done at the instigation of the artist. Ruled lines are visible beneath the paint indicating the cutting line or picture area proposed. There appears to be marked later paint applications which may have been done after the lining.
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The paint covers the whole picture plane save for occasional areas towards the edges where the ground is visible. The artist has worked up the paint in many areas resulting in multiple layers and considerable thickness. This is particularly evident in the face and much of the body, where the forms have been almost sculpted onto the canvas dragging dry paint over dry paint to build up highlights. The paint is generally well compacted with a rugged stiff appearance  This contrasts with smooth almost smeared areas typified by the neck. The overall impression of the work however is that it is unfinished. Paint in the foreground especially the crisp white paint of the clouds would seem to be a later addition by the artist, in that it is not worked wet in wet in anyway and appears to sit over the surface. Similarly yellow glazes and scumbles on the body also seem to have been applied later. Another version exists in Melbourne. This work is finished and shows a similarly adult featured child with arms out to the sides with billowing fabric swirling about her.
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Examination of the Tate painting with infrared reflectography and x-radiography suggests that a broad painted outline of the figure was initially made. This seems to have been done in a fluid brown paint. The figure is further reinforced with blue that is visible to the naked eye. The body exhibits various alterations from its earlier conception including a tilting back of the head, a twisting of the body from an earlier more left position and the complete change in the arms and hands from a back and hand splayed outline. This is particularly well conceived for the proper left arm and hand where the drawing of the fingers and hand in general is well articulated. The proper left shoulder also appears to have been lower. More clearly suggested in the x-radiograph, high density paint (lead white) might indicate wings to the right and left of the figure or indications of billowing fabric as seen in the Melbourne version. These are visible to the naked eye as brush mark texture showing through final paint and as a subtle outline in IR. The painting out of the possible wings with blue sky would have altered the tonal balance in the image making the upper half of the painting darker and without any significant visual element. This may have prompted the need to lighten the foreground and drop the arms to regain balance.
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Jacqueline Ridge<br/>
July 2000
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Technique and condition
2001-08-08T00:00:00
technique-and-condition
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children emotional states and conditions emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas gender girl hope hope - young girl people social comment society symbols and personifications