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The Toilette

Oil Painting
ca. 1849 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This picture was also called The Necklace. The sitter was reputedly a beauty of mixed Irish and Spanish descent, famous for her 'raven black hair and arched eyebrows'. She also sat for Leslie's picture of Griselda (see FA.128[O]).
Leslie was brought up in the United States, but worked in London. He was a friend and biographer of the landscape painter John Constable.

Object details

Category
Object type
TitleThe Toilette (popular title)
Materials and techniques
oil on panel
Brief description
Oil painting entitled 'The Toilette' by Charles Robert Leslie. Great Britain, ca. 1849.
Physical description
Oil on panel depicting a woman with long black hair and a loose fitting white dress, seated behind a dressing table, admiring a necklace
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 30.5cm
  • Estimate width: 25.4cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Style
Credit line
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Object history
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Subjects depicted
Summary
This picture was also called The Necklace. The sitter was reputedly a beauty of mixed Irish and Spanish descent, famous for her 'raven black hair and arched eyebrows'. She also sat for Leslie's picture of Griselda (see FA.128[O]).
Leslie was brought up in the United States, but worked in London. He was a friend and biographer of the landscape painter John Constable.
Bibliographic reference
Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 172
Collection
Accession number
FA.125[O]

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Record createdMay 19, 2003
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