Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
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Chantrey Bequest
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ralph-peacock-1748" aria-label="More by Ralph Peacock" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Ralph Peacock</a>
Ethel
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1898
actions: postures and motions
architecture
Brignall, Ethel
children
domestic
features
girl
individuals: female
interior - non-specific
interiors
named individuals
panelling
people
portraits
sitting
Titcomb, Ethel
<p>This portrait was painted the year the Tate Gallery was founded, and was one of the most popular pictures when it went on display in the 1900s. Peacock’s model, Ethel Brignall, was 14 when he painted her. He married her sister Edith a few years later. Peacock enjoyed considerable success as a portrait painter at the onset of his career but was largely forgotten by the art establishment by the middle of the 20th century.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2020</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
7 April 2014 – 12 October 2014
2014-10-12
7 April 2014 – 12 October 2014
2014-10-12
2014-04-07
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-04-07
Forgotten Faces
Collection based display
2 April 2015 – 25 September 2022
2022-09-25
28 March 2015
2015-03-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2015-04-02
Gallery 8
Collection based display
Ethel
support: 1327 × 740 mm
frame: 1584 × 1000 × 145 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> 1898
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<p>This portrait was painted the year the Tate Gallery was founded, and was one of the most popular pictures when it went on display in the 1900s. Peacock’s model, Ethel Brignall, was 14 when he painted her. He married her sister Edith a few years later. Peacock enjoyed considerable success as a portrait painter at the onset of his career but was largely forgotten by the art establishment by the middle of the 20th century.</p>
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Display caption
2020-09-17T00:00:00
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DISPLAY_CAPTION
<p><b>N01672</b> ETHEL 1897</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Ralph Peacock’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 52×29 (132×73·5).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1898.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
R.A., 1898 (256).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Royal Academy Pictures</i>, 1898, p.18; <i>Art Journal</i>, 1898, p.178; G. K. Chesterton, <i>Famous Paintings</i>, 1912, p.15 (in colour).</p>
<p>In the words of the sitter Mrs Ethel Titcomb, “Ethel” was painted by my brother-in-law Ralph Peacock in his studio at 11 Holland Park Road, Kensington, in the summer of 1897. I was 14 years old at the time.... I stayed with Ralph Peacock's parents, Mr and Mrs Thomas Peacock, in the summer holiday while the picture was being painted' (letter of 22 December 1958). See also <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/peacock-the-sisters-n01772" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N01772</span></a>.</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
2004-07-16T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions architecture Brignall, Ethel children domestic features girl individuals: female interior - non-specific interiors named individuals panelling people portraits sitting Titcomb, Ethel