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Hon Mrs Cecil Baring
Presented by the artist's widow 1935
adults
Baring, Cecil, The Hon. Mrs
clothing and personal items
hat
individuals: female
named individuals
objects
people
portraits
woman
painting oil paint canvas
26 November 2019 – 24 January 2020
2020-01-24
26 November 2019 – 24 January 2020
2020-01-24
2019-11-26
Philip Mould & Company (London, UK)
2019-11-26
Ambrose McEvoy: A Retrospective
Loan-out
The Hon. Mrs Cecil Baring
frame: 1450 × 1200 × 70 mm
support: 1270 × 1022 mm
Presented by the artist's widow 1935
<p><b>N04813</b> THE HON. MRS CECIL BARING <i>c.</i> 1917</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 50×40 1/4 (127×102).
<br/>Presented by the artist's widow 1935.</p>
<p>This work is not in Johnson's lists of works executed prior to May 1919 (not is ‘The Ferry’, exhibited 1909; see <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mcevoy-the-ferry-n04496" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04496</span></a>), but the sitter's daughter, the Hon. Mrs Arthur Pollen, has written (27 August 1957) that this <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> was painted, in one or two sittings, about a year after the full-length portrait exhibited at the International Society, spring 1916 (10; repr. <i>Studio</i>, LXX, 1917, p.85, and Johnson, 1919, 1, pl.34; now in the possession of the sitter's granddaughter, Mrs Christopher Hull). ‘My family always felt that although not a very accurate likeness it had caught more of the personality of the sitter than the finished portrait.’ 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/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a> of the Hon. Mrs Cecil Baring was exhibited at the R.A., 1928 (386), lent by the sitter.</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 Baring, Cecil, The Hon. Mrs clothing and personal items hat individuals: female named individuals objects people portraits woman