Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/claude-rogers-1861" aria-label="More by Claude Rogers" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Claude Rogers</a>
Mrs Richard Chilver
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1940
actions: postures and motions
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Chilver, Elizabeth
domestic
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interior - non-specific
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public service
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<p>This portrait of the journalist, Elizabeth Chilver, was produced in the year of her marriage to a senior civil servant named Richard Chilver. It is painted in the realist tradition of the Euston Road School which Claude Rogers founded with Coldstream and Pasmore in 1937. Rogers wrote that it was ‘a commission which… did not come off at the time’. His concern for accuracy is balanced by his delight in the sensuous qualities of paint.</p><p>Elizabeth Chilver later became Principal of Bedford College in London and, from 1971, of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
10 November 2003 – 20 October 2004
2004-10-20
10 November 2003
2003-11-10
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-11-10
1930s Documentary
Collection based display
Mrs Richard Chilver
support: 908 × 603 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> 1940
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<span class="text15">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> of the journalist, Elizabeth Chilver,      was produced in the year of her </span><span class="text0">marriage to a      senior civil servant named Richard Chilver. It is painted in the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/realism" title="Glossary definition for 'Realism'"><span>realist</span></a> </span><span class="text14">tradition of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/euston-road-school" title="Glossary definition for 'Euston Road School'"><span>Euston Road School</span></a> which</span><span class="text0"> Claude Rogers founded with Coldstream </span><span class="text14">and      Pasmore in 1937. Rogers wrote that it was ‘a commission which…      did not come</span><span class="text0"> off at the time’. His concern      for accuracy </span><span class="text14">is balanced by his delight in the      sensuous</span><span class="text0"> qualities of paint.  </span>
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<span class="text15">Elizabeth Chilver later became Principal of Bedford      College in London and, from 1971, of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.</span><span class="text0">
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<p><b>N05345</b> MRS RICHARD CHILVER 1937–8</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Claude Rogers 39’ t.r. in red and ‘Rogers 39’ in black.
<br/>Canvas, 35 3/4×23 3/4 (91×60·5).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1940.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased at the Leicester Galleries by Edward Le Bas, but relinquished in exchange for another picture.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>Contemporary English Painting</i>, Wildenstein, March–April 1939 (26); Leicester Galleries, April 1940 (10); R.A., 1941 (99).</p>
<p>The artist wrote (n.d. October 1961) that the <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 at Constable's House, 76 Charlotte Street, W.1, and was a ‘semi-demi commission which ... did not come off at the time. Many sittings during which Sally (Mrs Chilver) made much intellectual conversation and I... tried to get her eyes in the right place among other things I remember.’</p>
<p>Elizabeth (Sally) Graves, a niece of Robert Graves, married Richard Chilver in 1937. She was Director of the Oxford University Institute of Commonwealth Studies 1957–62.</p>
<p>Painted in 1937–8 and dated later for exhibition.</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
2004-10-07T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults Chilver, Elizabeth domestic individuals: female interior - non-specific interiors named individuals official people portraits public service sitting woman work and occupations