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Success
Presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894
adults
animals: mammals
architecture
birth to death
carriage
death
domestic
duelling
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
estate
footman
gate
group
groups
horse
landscape
leisure and pastimes
man
objects
people
road
sadness
servant
society
sport
sword
townscapes / man-made features
transport: land
weapons
wooded
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
Success!
support: 1346 × 2134 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999962" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Sir Henry Tate</a> 1894
<p><b>N01551</b> SUCCESS 1881</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘S. E. Waller 1881’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 53×84 (134·5×213·5).
<br/>Tate Gift 1894.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Presumably purchased by Henry Tate at the Royal Academy 1881.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1881 (81).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> S. E. Waller, ‘Evolution of a Picture’ in <i>Art Journal</i>, 1896, p.316.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Sir Edward J. Poynter, <i>The National Gallery</i>, III, 1900, p.343.</p>
<p>In the above-mentioned article the artist describes how an early discarded sketch for the picture, ‘The Day of Reckoning’, served for 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/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> of ‘Success’. 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/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a>, showing a similar carriage and horses and somewhat different park gates, is reproduced on p.317. The subject represents a young man being dragged off the field after a duel.</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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adults animals: mammals architecture birth to death carriage death domestic duelling emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas estate footman gate group groups horse landscape leisure and pastimes man objects people road sadness servant society sport sword townscapes / man-made features transport: land weapons wooded work and occupations