Oil paint on board
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/charles-conder-934" aria-label="More by Charles Conder" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Charles Conder</a>
Portrait  a Man in Bed and a Nurse Holding a Lamp
Purchased 1930
actions: postures and motions
adults
chair
Conder, Stella
furnishings
individuals: female
Maris, Stella
named individuals
objects
people
portraits
sitting
woman
painting oil paint board
Portrait Study. Verso: Study of a Man in Bed and a Nurse Holding a Lamp
support: 432 × 311 mm
Purchased 1930
<p><b>N04497</b> PORTRAIT STUDY <i>c.</i> 1901–6
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Oil on millboard, 17×12 1/4 (43×31). On the reverse is a study of a man in bed and a nurse holding a lamp.
<br/>Purchased from Arthur Blunt (Clarke Fund) 1930.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> This and No.4498 were two of three such portrait studies which were offered to the Tate Gallery by Arthur Blunt.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Rothenstein, 1938, p.259.</p>
<p>This and the following <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> study (<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/conder-portrait-study-n04498" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04498</span></a>) may be of the artist's wife Stella Maris, whom he married in 1901. There is some likeness between these <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> and two <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>photographs</span></a> of Mrs Conder which are in the Tate Gallery archives. A photograph of Mrs Conder, taken shortly after her marriage, is reproduced by Rothenstein, <i>op. cit.</i>, facing p.192.</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, I</p>
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2004-10-06T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults chair Conder, Stella furnishings individuals: female Maris, Stella named individuals objects people portraits sitting woman