Oil paint on wood
Tate Collection
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The Watts Gift
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/george-frederic-watts-586" aria-label="More by George Frederic Watts" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">George Frederic Watts</a>
Dorothy Tennant Later Lady Stanley
Presented by Henry Curtis in memory of Dorothy Tennant, Lady Stanley 1926
adults
animals: mammals
individuals: female
named individuals
people
portraits
squirrel
Tennant, Dorothy
woman
<p>The mild climate of the Isle of Wight attracted the delicate Watts, who moved there to a new house in Freshwater in 1873. His neighbours the Tennants had two daughters, and he became friendly with Dorothy (c1851-1926), who was an artist and pupil at the Slade School. Watts had portrayed many of his famous contemporaries, usually with a sober realism. In this more casual portrait he follows a renaissance design, with a pet squirrel looking like an emblem.Dorothy Tennant subsequently married the explorer Stanley in 1890. Both were Welsh. Her second husband presented the portrait to the Tate Gallery.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint wood
14 October 2004 – 9 January 2005
2005-01-09
14 October 2004 – 9 January 2005
2005-01-09
2004-10-14
National Portrait Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.npg.org.uk
2004-10-14
GF Watts
Loan-out
Dorothy Tennant, Later Lady Stanley
support: 635 × 533 mm
frame: 972 × 847 × 56 mm
Presented by Henry Curtis in memory of Dorothy Tennant, Lady Stanley 1926
<p>The mild climate of the Isle of Wight attracted the delicate Watts, who moved there to a new house in Freshwater in 1873. His neighbours the Tennants had two daughters, and he became friendly with Dorothy (c1851-1926), who was an artist and pupil at the Slade School. Watts had portrayed many of his famous contemporaries, usually with a sober <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>realism</span></a>. In this more casual <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> he follows 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/r/renaissance" title="Glossary definition for 'Renaissance'"><span>renaissance</span></a> design, with a pet squirrel looking like an emblem.</p><p>Dorothy Tennant subsequently married the explorer Stanley in 1890. Both were Welsh. Her second husband presented the portrait to the Tate Gallery.</p>
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adults animals: mammals individuals: female named individuals people portraits squirrel Tennant, Dorothy woman