Head of a Welsh fishergirl
Oil Painting
ca.1864-1888 (painted)
ca.1864-1888 (painted)
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Oil painting
Object details
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| Title | Head of a Welsh fishergirl (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on millboard |
| Brief description | Oil painting depicting the 'Head of a Welsh Fisher-girl', by Frank Holl R.A. Great Britain, ca.1864-1888. |
| Physical description | Oil painting |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Mrs C. M. Baker through The Art Fund |
| Object history | Bequeathed by Mrs C. M. Baker through the Art Fund, 1958 Historical significance: Frank Holl (1845-1888) was born in London, the son of the engraver Francis Holl. He was accepted at the Royal Academy Schools at the age of 15, and in 1863 he won a gold medal for a religious painting. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1864 until his death. Holl specialised in a melancholy, even morbid strain of genre painting, and in the 1870s won popular success with paintings on the themes of social problems, illness and mortality. In the late 1870s Holl became a successful and prolific portrait painter. This vivid oil sketch of the head of a Welsh fishergirl, presumably a preparatory study for a painting, was given to the V&A in 1958 by the artist's niece Mrs C.M. Baker through the Art Fund, along with Holl's portraits of his younger brother and his future sister-in-law as children (P.1-1958 and P.2-1958). |
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| Accession number | P.3-1958 |
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| Record created | April 25, 2007 |
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