Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ralph-peacock-1748" aria-label="More by Ralph Peacock" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Ralph Peacock</a>
Sisters
Presented by the artist 1900
actions: postures and motions
adults
Brignall, Edith
Brignall, Ethel
family
individuals: female
leisure and pastimes
named individuals
people
portraits
reading
recreational activities
sister
sitting
society
woman
painting oil paint canvas
7 April 2014 – 12 October 2014
2014-10-12
7 April 2014 – 12 October 2014
2014-10-12
2014-04-07
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-04-07
Forgotten Faces
Collection based display
The Sisters
frame: 1675 × 1275 × 114 mm
support: 1300 × 900 mm
Presented by the artist 1900
<p><b>N01772</b> THE SISTERS 1900</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Ralph Peacock 1900.’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 51 1/4×35 1/2 (130×90).
<br/>Presented by the artist 1900.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1900 (467).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Frank Rinder, ‘The Royal Academy of 1900’ in <i>Art Journal</i>, 1900, p.182, repr. p.165.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Royal Academy Pictures</i>, 1900, p.147.</p>
<p>The elder sister reading from an open book was Miss Edith Brignall, who married the artist in the following year. The younger sister, Miss Ethel Brignall, married Harold A. Titcomb, an American mining engineer, in 1908, and also forms the subject of <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/peacock-ethel-n01672" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N01672</span></a>.</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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Catalogue entry
2004-07-16T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults Brignall, Edith Brignall, Ethel family individuals: female leisure and pastimes named individuals people portraits reading recreational activities sister sitting society woman