Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/david-muirhead-1676" aria-label="More by David Muirhead" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">David Muirhead</a>
Portrait a Girl
Presented by A.E. Anderson through the Art Fund 1928
adults
architecture
cartouche
features
individuals: female
people
portraits
woman
painting oil paint canvas
Portrait of a Girl
support: 610 × 460 mm
Presented by A.E. Anderson through the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1928
<p><b>N04421</b> PORTRAIT OF A GIRL <i>c.</i> 1922</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘D M’ c.r. (incised).
<br/>Canvas, 24×18 (61×46) in painted oval.
<br/>Presented by A. E. Anderson through the National Art-Collections Fund 1928.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> (?) N.E.A.C., December 1923–January 1924 (41, ‘Portrait’, or 44, ‘Head of a Girl’); R.A., <i>Late Members</i>, winter 1933 (504).</p>
<p>Sent for exhibition at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1922, but rejected. Muirhead exhibited a number 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/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portraits</span></a> and heads of girls from 1911 onwards, e.g. ‘The Listening Girl’, exhibited at <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>N.E.A.C</span></a>., winter 1911 (12), and ‘Girl at a Mirror’, exhibited at N.E.A.C., summer 1916 (16).</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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2004-10-06T00:00:00
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adults architecture cartouche features individuals: female people portraits woman