Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
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Chantrey Bequest
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/glyn-warren-philpot-1765" aria-label="More by Glyn Warren Philpot" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Glyn Warren Philpot</a>
Mrs Gerard Simpson
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1937
actions: postures and motions
adults
domestic
individuals: female
interior - non-specific
interiors
named individuals
people
portraits
Simpson, Gerard, Mrs
sitting
woman
painting oil paint canvas
Mrs Gerard Simpson
support: 978 × 244 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> 1937
<p><b>N04893</b> MRS GERARD SIMPSON 1937</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 38 1/2×29 1/2 (98×75).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1937.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1937 (166); Tate Gallery, July–August 1938 (West Corridor, unnumbered); Worthing, September–October 1962 (30).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Royal Academy Illustrated</i>, 1937, p.24.</p>
<p>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> was painted in April 1937 and was followed by another which is owned by the sitter. According to the sitter, now Mrs Edward Douglas, ‘The second portrait was painted in 1937 and finished a fortnight before Glyn Philpot's death. I was wearing a black satin evening dress with a large black bow across the front of the dress, lined in pale grey. It is a three-quarter length portrait. He worked meticulously and made a great many <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a>. I gave him about twenty sittings for each portrait. He was an extremely entertaining man and from his conversation he seemed more interested in ballet than in <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/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> and was always full of stories about his social experiences in London’ (letter of 11 November 1958).</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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-06T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults domestic individuals: female interior - non-specific interiors named individuals people portraits Simpson, Gerard, Mrs sitting woman