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Object number

FDA-P.501-2013

Object type

painting

Identification

Title

Children of Octavius Moulton Barrett
The Barrett Children

Title Type

Common name
assigned by cataloguer

Description

Painted double portrait of a girl sitting on a table and a boy standing alongside her

Comments

This is a portrait of siblings Elfrida and Altham Moulton-Barrett. The work was lent to the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition of 1898 by the father of the children depicted, Octavius Moulton Barrett. In the catalogue of the exhibition, the work is described as follows:

'Two nearly life - size figures, looking at the spectator; the girl (a full length) in sea - green dress, is sitting on a table, holding a rose in her lap; the boy (a three - quarter figure) in a fancy dress of citron velvet, leans on the table beside her, with his right arm behind him. Signed with monogram, and dated 1881. Canvas, 49 by 39 in.'

Description

Dimensions

height (sight size): 1265mm
width (sight size): 1000mm
height (frame): 1563mm
width (frame): 1311mm
depth (frame): 69mm

Inscription

Signed and dated with monogram, lower left: '1881'

Materials & techniques note

Oil on canvas

Physical description

Carved gilt wood frame

Production

Person

Millais, John Everett, 1829 - 1896 (Artist)

Date

1881

History and association

Object history note

Provenance: Collection of Octavius Moulton Barrett; by descent; Moulton Barrett bequest to Eton College

Exhibited: Grosvenor Gallery (within the West Gallery), London, 1882, catalogue number 83; Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1898, catalogue number
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