Oil paint on canvas
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Henry Tate Collection
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/thomas-benjamin-kennington-306" aria-label="More by Thomas Benjamin Kennington" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Thomas Benjamin Kennington</a>
Orphans
Presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894
actions: postures and motions
brother
domestic
family
health and welfare
interior - non-specific
interiors
orphan
people
poverty
sister
sitting
society
<p>Kennington was one of the founder members of the New English Art Club in 1886, and its first Secretary. He was well known for his compelling pictures of the urban poor, although he also painted less emotive scenes from everyday life, and portraits. The rich colouring, smooth handling of paint, and subject were probably inspired by the work of the seventeenth-century Spanish artist Murillo, who also painted poor children.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
19 May 2012 – 2 December 2012
2012-12-02
19 May 2012 – 2 December 2012
2012-12-02
2012-05-19
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2012-05-19
Victorian Sentimentality
Collection based display
23 November 2018 – 31 May 2019
2019-05-31
23 November 2018 – 31 May 2019
2019-05-31
2018-11-23
Guildhall Art Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.guildhall-art-gallery.org.uk
2018-11-23
Children in Art
Loan-out
Orphans
support: 1016 × 762 mm
frame: 1375 × 1115 × 150 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999962" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Sir Henry Tate</a> 1894
<p>Kennington was one of the founder members of 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> in 1886, and its first  Secretary. He was well known for his compelling  pictures of the urban poor, although he also  painted less emotive scenes from everyday life,  and <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>. The rich colouring, smooth handling  of paint, and subject were probably inspired by  the work of the seventeenth-century Spanish  artist Murillo, who also painted poor children.</p>
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2004-08-18T00:00:00
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<p><b>N01560</b> ORPHANS 1885
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<br/>Inscr. ‘T. B. Kennington. 85’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 40×30 (102×76).
<br/>Tate Gift 1894.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Henry Tate from the artist.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
R.O.I., December 1885–January 1886 (48, repr. from woodcut), as ‘Poverty’; R.A., 1886 (741); St Jude's School, Whitechapel, 1887.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Walter Armstrong, ‘The Henry Tate Collection II’ in <i>Art Journal</i>, 1893, p.122, repr. p.66 from engraving by J. C. Griffiths.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Sir Edward J. Poynter, <i>The National Gallery</i>, III, 1900, p.139.</p>
<p>The subject may have been suggested by Murillo.</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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Catalogue entry
2004-07-16T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions brother domestic family health and welfare interior - non-specific interiors orphan people poverty sister sitting society