Group of Camellias
Oil Painting
1859 (painted)
1859 (painted)
| Artist/Maker |
Martha Darley Mutrie was born in Manchester and studied under George Wallis, later Keeper of Fine Art at the South Kensington Museum, at the Manchester School of Design. She and her sister Annie, also an artist, moved to London in 1854, where they both enjoyed critical and public success. Mutrie’s specialised in flower and fruit pieces. This still-life of a group of camellias is typical of her oeuvre in its rich palette with bold pink accents and subtle use of light.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Group of Camellias |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on canvas |
| Brief description | Oil painting, 'Group of Camellias', Martha Darley Mutrie, 1859 |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'M D Mutrie 1859' (Signed and dated by the artist, indistinctly, lower right) |
| Credit line | Purchased, 1884 |
| Object history | Purchased, 1884 Exhibited at the British Institution in 1859, no.355 'Cammelias', priced 25 guineas |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | Martha Darley Mutrie was born in Manchester and studied under George Wallis, later Keeper of Fine Art at the South Kensington Museum, at the Manchester School of Design. She and her sister Annie, also an artist, moved to London in 1854, where they both enjoyed critical and public success. Mutrie’s specialised in flower and fruit pieces. This still-life of a group of camellias is typical of her oeuvre in its rich palette with bold pink accents and subtle use of light. |
| Bibliographic reference | Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 214 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 28-1884 |
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| Record created | May 8, 2007 |
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