Oil paint on canvas
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Music Room
Presented by the Art Fund 1912
actions: postures and motions
adults
Bennett
clothing and personal items
couch
domestic
dress
figurine
fine arts and music
furnishings
individuals: female
instrument, mandolin
interiors
leisure and pastimes
music
music and entertainment
music room
named individuals
objects
people
picture
portraits
sitting
standing
sunshine
weather
woman
painting oil paint canvas
The Music Room
support: 1022 × 1270 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1912
<p><b>N02872</b> THE MUSIC ROOM 1905–6</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘P W Steer 1906’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 40 1/4×50 (102×127).
<br/>Presented by the National Art-Collections Fund 1912.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased from the artist by Sir Cyril Kendall Butler 1906 and purchased from him by the N.A.C.F.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., spring 1906 (124); C.A.S., <i>Loan Exhibition</i>, Manchester and Leeds, 1911 (81); Tate Gallery, April–July 1929 (21); National Gallery, June–August 1943 (18); Tate Gallery, November–December 1960 (53).
<br/><i>Lit:</i>
<i>N.A.C.F. Report 1912</i>, 1913, p.12, repr.; MacColl, 1945, pp.46, 56, 107–8, 207.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Art Journal</i>, 1906, p.233; <i>Burlington Magazine</i>, XLIV, 1924, facing p.176; Ironside, 1943, pl.47.</p>
<p>Begun in 1905 and completed early in the following year, the picture shows the same model in two different poses. According to a note in the card-index compiled by C.H. Collins Baker (deposited at the British Museum, Department of <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/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>Prints</span></a> and <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>) a Miss Bennett sat for 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/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a>. The sofa and background are taken from the artist's studio.</p>
<p>A study, 26×31 in., for this painting belonged in 1927 to Barbizon House, into whose possession it returned September 1945 from the collection of H. M. Hepworth.</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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2004-09-23T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults Bennett clothing and personal items couch domestic dress figurine fine arts and music furnishings individuals: female instrument, mandolin interiors leisure and pastimes music music and entertainment music room named individuals objects people picture portraits sitting standing sunshine weather woman