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Chloë BoughtonLeigh
Purchased 1947
adults
Boughton-Leigh, Chloë
individuals: female
named individuals
people
portraits
woman
painting oil paint canvas
Chloë Boughton-Leigh
support: 711 × 508 mm
frame: 847 × 635 × 60 mm
Purchased 1947
<p><b>N05802</b>	CHLOë BOUGHTON-LEIGH
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 28×20 (71×51).
<br/>Purchased from Roland, Browse and Delbanco (Knapping Fund) 1947.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Probably among the paintings left by the sitter to her cousin Mrs Molloy. Acquired by Mr Toobey of Reading, who sold it to Roland, Browse and Delbanco as a Gwen John.</p>
<p>Acquired as a self-<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 Gwen John but obviously bears no resemblance to <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/john-self-portrait-n05366" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05366</span></a>. Mrs Dorelia John, who saw 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> of the picture, wrote (14 August 1952): ‘The photograph you sent me is not a self-portrait of Gwen John and in the opinion of Mr John and myself is not by her.’ Some fairly similar <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> were owned by Mrs Molloy, who believes this to be a portrait of Chloë Boughton-Leigh (letter of 20 May 1957). As she looks older than in the portrait of her by Gwen John (<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/john-chloe-boughton-leigh-n04088" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04088</span></a>) the picture may have been painted some time after 1907.</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
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2004-10-08T00:00:00
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adults Boughton-Leigh, Chloë individuals: female named individuals people portraits woman