Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
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Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/dame-ethel-walker-2115" aria-label="More by Dame Ethel Walker" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Dame Ethel Walker</a>
Miss Buchanan
Purchased 1922
actions: postures and motions
adults
artist, sculptor
arts and entertainment
Buchanan, Mary
hands clasped
individuals: female
named individuals
people
portraits
woman
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
9 October 2023 – 12 May 2024
2024-05-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2023-10-09
Ethel Walker: Female Utopias
Collection based display
Miss Buchanan
support: 765 × 637 mm
frame: 925 × 798 × 65 mm
Purchased 1922
<p><b>N03685</b> MISS BUCHANAN <i>c.</i> 1922
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Ethel Walker’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 30×25 1/8 (76·5×64).
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1922.</p>
<p>Miss Grace English has described the sitter as ‘Miss Mamie Buchanan, daughter of a famous British Ambassador to Russia, ...’ (typescript MS., f. 13) but members of the Buchanan family are agreed that the woman shown in 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> bears no resemblance to either Sir George Buchanan's only daughter, Meriel, or to Mamie the sister of Sir Charles Buchanan and cousin to Meriel.</p>
<p>‘Mamie’ is a diminutive of Margaret or Mary, and there was a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculptor</span></a>, Miss Mary Buchanan, who exhibited occasionally at the R.A. and R.B.A. during the 1920s, and may be the sitter, although there is no direct evidence.</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
2004-10-05T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults artist, sculptor arts and entertainment Buchanan, Mary hands clasped individuals: female named individuals people portraits woman work and occupations