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Rosalind Iden as Ophelia
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1940
painting oil paint canvas
Rosalind Iden, as Ophelia
support: 1010 × 762 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
<p><b>N05336</b> ROSALIND IDEN AS OPHELIA 1940
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Dunlop’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 39 3/4×30 (101×76).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1940.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1940 (222).
<br/><i>Repr:</i>
<i>Royal Academy Illustrated</i>, 1940, p.42.</p>
<p>Rosalind Iden was born in Manchester in 1911, the daughter of Ben Iden Payne. She studied at the Margaret Morris School of Dancing, appeared in ballet for a number of years, and made her début as a Shakespearian actress as Ophelia in Donald Wolfit's production of <i>Hamlet</i> during his first London season at the Kingsway Theatre in February 1940, when 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.</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, I
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