Oil paint on canvas
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A Smiling Woman
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1924
painting oil paint canvas
A Smiling Woman
support: 608 × 510 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> 1924
<p><b>N03957</b> A SMILING WOMAN 1904
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<br/>Inscr. ‘FD’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 24×20 (61×51).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1924.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1924 (345).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Tate Gallery Illustrations</i>, 1928, pl.107.</p>
<p>A sketch of Lettice, Countess Beauchamp, made in 1904 at Madresfield Court, Malvern, where the artist was staying. Owing to a disagreement between the artist and the sitter 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 not seen again until it was sent to the R.A. in 1924. Lady Lettice Mary Elizabeth Grosvenor, daughter of Earl Grosvenor, son of the 1st Duke of Westminster, married the 7th Earl Beauchamp in 1902 and died in 1936.</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</p>
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