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Amber Beads
Presented by R. Just Boyd through the Art Fund 1926
actions: postures and motions
adults
book - non-specific
bowl
Buston, Lydia
chandelier
clothing and personal items
domestic
fine arts and music
furnishings
hands crossed
heating and lighting
individuals: female
interior - non-specific
interiors
mirror
named individuals
natural phenomena
necklace
objects
ornament
people
picture
portraits
purse
reading, writing, printed matter
ring
Russell, Lydia, Lady
sculpture
shadow
sitting
table
vessels and containers
woman
painting oil paint canvas
The Amber Beads
support: 749 × 622 mm
Presented by R. Just Boyd through the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1926
<p><b>N04188</b> THE AMBER BEADS <i>c.</i> 1926</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘W Russell’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 29 1/2×24 1/2 (75×62).
<br/>Presented by R. Just Boyd through the National Art-Collections Fund 1926.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1926 (15).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Royal Academy Illustrated</i>, 1926, p.23; <i>N.A.C.F. Report 1926</i>, 1926, p.39.</p>
<p>Though exhibited at the Royal <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/academy" title="Glossary definition for 'Academy'"><span>Academy</span></a> as ‘The Amber Beads’ this was reproduced in the <i>Royal Academy Illustrated</i> as ‘The Artist's Wife’. Russell married Lydia, daughter of William Nelson Buston, of Woodburn Green, Buckinghamshire, in 1900. She sat for a number of his pictures and died in 1944.</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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2004-10-05T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults book - non-specific bowl Buston, Lydia chandelier clothing and personal items domestic fine arts and music furnishings hands crossed heating and lighting individuals: female interior - non-specific interiors mirror named individuals natural phenomena necklace objects ornament people picture portraits purse reading, writing, printed matter ring Russell, Lydia, Lady sculpture shadow sitting table vessels and containers woman