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Mrs Frederick Barnard
Bequeathed by Miss Dorothy Barnard 1949
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Barnard, Alice
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<p>Sargent made this portrait at Broadway in the Cotswolds at the time he was working on 'Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose', which shows Mrs Barnard's daughters Polly and Dorothy. The lighting in both paintings is artificial, and they were posed in the evening.Sargent, who was American, was specially invited to contribute to the New English Art Club's first exhibition in London in 1886. This portrait was one of the two pictures he showed, and the reviewer in 'The Times' singled it out, commenting that the face was 'painted with astonishing and uncompromising life-likeness, and the hands - to be quite frank - very clumsily sketched in.'</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
11 October 2002 – 5 January 2003
2003-01-05
11 October 2002 – 5 January 2003
2003-01-05
2002-10-11
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, USA)
2002-10-11
Whistler Sargent and Steer - Frist
Tate partnerships & programmes
3 June 2006 – 15 August 2006
2006-08-15
3 June 2006 – 15 August 2006
2006-08-15
2006-06-03
Bowes Museum (Barnard Castle, UK)
http://www.bowesmuseum.org.uk
2006-06-03
Impressionist Women
Loan-out
3 October 2006 – 13 May 2007
2007-05-13
3 October 2006 – 8 January 2007
2007-01-08
2006-10-03
Fundación Caja (Casa de las Alhajas) (Madrid, Spain)
3 October 2006 – 8 January 2007
2007-01-08
2006-10-03
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Spain)
12 February 2007 – 13 May 2007
2007-05-13
2007-02-12
Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Paris, France)
2006-10-03
Sargent/Sorolla
Loan-out
24 November 2007 – 4 May 2008
2008-05-04
24 November 2007 – 4 May 2008
2008-05-04
2007-11-24
Museo di Santa Giulia (Brescia, Italy)
2007-11-24
America! Storie di pittura dal Nuovo Mondo
Loan-out
12 May 2009 – 17 October 2010
2010-10-17
12 May 2009 – 17 October 2010
2010-10-17
2009-05-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-05-12
Lawrence and Sargent
Collection based display
8 February 2011 – 19 February 2011
2011-02-19
8 February 2011 – 19 February 2011
2011-02-19
2011-02-08
Mall Galleries (London, UK)
2011-02-08
Pure Gold
Loan-out
5 February 2015 – 4 October 2015
2015-10-04
5 February 2015 – 25 May 2015
2015-05-25
2015-02-05
National Portrait Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.npg.org.uk
29 June 2015 – 4 October 2015
2015-10-04
2015-06-29
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)
http://www.metmuseum.org
2015-02-05
John Singer Sargent: Artists, Writers, Actors and Musicians
Loan-out
Mrs Frederick Barnard
support: 1041 × 571 mm
frame: 1215 × 745 × 90 mm
Bequeathed by Miss Dorothy Barnard 1949
<p>Sargent made 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> at Broadway in the Cotswolds at the time he was working on 'Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose', which shows Mrs Barnard's daughters Polly and Dorothy. The lighting in both <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/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> is artificial, and they were posed in the evening.</p><p>Sargent, who was American, was specially invited to contribute to 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/n/new-english-art-club" title="Glossary definition for 'New English Art Club'"><span>New English Art Club</span></a>'s first exhibition in London in 1886. This portrait was one of the two pictures he showed, and the reviewer in 'The Times' singled it out, commenting that the face was 'painted with astonishing and uncompromising life-likeness, and the hands - to be quite frank - very clumsily sketched in.'</p>
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2004-09-02T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05901</b> MRS FREDERICK BARNARD 1885</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘To Alice Barnard’ t.r., ‘John S. Sargent’ t.r., and ‘to my [remainder cut off]’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 41×22 1/2 (104×57).
<br/>Bequeathed by Miss Dorothy Barnard 1949.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Mrs Frederick Barnard, by descent to her daughters Miss Polly and Miss Dorothy Barnard.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., April 1886 (17); <i>Fair Women</i>, International Society, May–July 1910 (29); (?) <i>Anglo-American Exhibition</i>, Shepherd's Bush, 1914; R.A., winter 1926 (41, repr. <i>Illustrations of the Sargent Exhibition</i>, p.22).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Downes, 1925, pp.138–9; Charteris, 1927, pp.90, 259; Mount, 1955, pp.112, 411, 431; McKibbin, 1956, p.83; Mount, 1957, pp.94, 339.
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<br/>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> of Mrs Frederick Barnard (Alice Faraday), wife of the illustrator, whom she married in 1870, was painted at Broadway, Worcestershire, in 1885, at the time when Sargent was working on ‘Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose’ (<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sargent-carnation-lily-lily-rose-n01615" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N01615</span></a>), and using her daughters Polly and Dorothy as models (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/sargent-dorothy-barnard-a00850" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>A00850</span></a> and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sargent-polly-barnard-a00851" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>A00851</span></a>). Mrs Barnard was a niece of Michael Faraday, the physicist.</p>
<p>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/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> has been cut down on the right side and there is 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/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photograph</span></a> in the Frick Art Reference Library which shows it before this alteration was made. The first version of <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sargent-mrs-frederick-barnard-n05901" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05901</span></a> is said to have been painted on the strip of <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/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvas</span></a> torn from the left side of ‘Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose’ (Mount, 1955, p.112, and 1957, p.94, and verbal information to the compiler). This version belongs to Dr John A. P. Millet.</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
2004-10-08T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults Barnard, Alice clothing and personal items dress Faraday, Alice individuals: female named individuals objects parasol people portraits standing woman