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Girl at Piano
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1940
agricultural
animals: mammals
architecture
artist - non-specific
artist, painter
arts and entertainment
author
Bell, Angelica, later Garnett
British
cat
chair
children
daughter
domestic
England
England, South East
England, Southern
family
farm
father
features
fine arts and music
Firle
Firle, Charleston
furnishings
garden
garden structures
girl
individuals: female
instrument, piano
interiors
leisure and pastimes
literary
living room
music
music and entertainment
named individuals
nationality
objects
people
places
portraits
society
Sussex - non-specific
Sussex, East
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
window
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
Girl at the Piano
support: 1175 × 1473 mm
frame: 1525 × 1805 × 125 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>N05171</b> GIRL AT THE PIANO 1940
<br/> 
<br/>Inscr. ‘D. Grant 40’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 46 1/4×58 (117·5×147).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the Lefevre Gallery 1940.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>Nine Painters</i>, Lefevre Gallery, May 1940 (19); R.A., 1941 (241); Tate Gallery, May–June 1959, and Arts Council tour, 1959 (72).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Studio</i>, CXXII, 1941, p.62; Mortimer, 1944, pl.22 (the date given as 1938); Anthony Bertram, <i>A Century of British Painting, 1851–1951</i>, 1951, p.178, pl.50.</p>
<p>Painted at Charleston; the girl is Angelica, daughter of Clive and Vanessa Bell, who married David Garnett in 1942.</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
<br/></p>

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2004-07-20T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
agricultural animals: mammals architecture artist - non-specific artist, painter arts and entertainment author Bell, Angelica, later Garnett British cat chair children daughter domestic England England, South East England, Southern family farm father features fine arts and music Firle Firle, Charleston furnishings garden garden structures girl individuals: female instrument, piano interiors leisure and pastimes literary living room music music and entertainment named individuals nationality objects people places portraits society Sussex, East Sussex - non-specific UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions window work and occupations