Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/douglas-s-gray-1207" aria-label="More by Douglas S. Gray" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Douglas S. Gray</a>
Rosalind
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1926
painting oil paint canvas
Rosalind
support: 1295 × 927 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> 1926
<p><b>N04193</b> ROSALIND 1924–5
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<br/>Inscr. ‘D S Gray’ t.l.
<br/>Canvas, 51×36 1/2 (130×93).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1926.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1926 (327).</p>
<p>The sitter is Miss Rosalind Gray (b. 1892), the artist's sister, who is herself 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/m/miniature" title="Glossary definition for 'Miniature'"><span>miniature</span></a> painter; she posed in a room of their old home at Clapham Park. The artist wrote (21 September 1957) that he preferred the side light of this room to that of his studio for this subject. 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 painted in 1924–5.</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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