Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-james-jebusa-shannon-1932" aria-label="More by Sir James Jebusa Shannon" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir James Jebusa Shannon</a>
Madame Patey
Presented by Ethel Jackson 1927
actions: postures and motions
adults
arts and entertainment
clothing and personal items
dress
hands clasped
individuals: female
named individuals
objects
Patey, Janet Monach
people
portraits
singer
woman
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
19 June 2006 – 4 December 2006
2006-12-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2006-06-19
The Swagger Portrait
Collection based display
Madame Patey
support: 1275 × 889 mm

Presented by Ethel Jackson 1927
<p><b>N04263</b> MADAME PATEY 1884</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘J.J. Shannon 1884’ t.l. and ‘J.J. Shannon 1884’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 50×35 (127×89).
<br/>Presented by Ethel Jackson, daughter of Madame Patey, 1927.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1884 (627).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> National Gallery, Millbank [Tate Gallery], <i>Review of the Acquisitions, 1927–29</i>, 1930, p.45.</p>
<p>Janet Monach Patey (1842–94) was a London-born contralto singer who achieved a considerable reputation as a concert performer and in oratorio. By 1870 she had succeeded Mme Sainton-Dolby as principal English contralto, a position she was to hold until her death in February 1894. This <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>, painted at the height of her fame, shows her poised as if in readiness to begin singing.</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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-06T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults arts and entertainment clothing and personal items dress hands clasped individuals: female named individuals objects Patey, Janet Monach people portraits singer woman work and occupations