A Woman holding Necklace and Flower
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1867 (monogrammed and dated)
Materials
Coloured chalks on two horizontally joined sheets of paper with pin holes to upper right and left
Measurements
583 x 352 mm
Order this imageCollection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands (Accredited Museum)
NT 1288092
Summary
Coloured chalks drawing on two horizontally joined sheets of paper with pin holes to upper right and left. A Woman holding Necklace and Flower by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882), monogrammed and date upper right: DGR 1867. The sitter may be Annie Miller, first discovered by Holman Hunt as a barmaid in a Chelsea slum and the model for his Awakening Conscience (1854, Tate). She also sat for Rossetti and George Price Boyce and posed for Rossetti's Helen of Troy (1863, Hamburger Kunsthalle). The pink in her hand may refer to her own marriage. By 1867 she had given birth to a daughter and a son.
Provenance
Thomas Ayres; his sale Christie's 23 April 1906 (22) bought in; Christie's, 2nd May 1907; given to National Trust by an anonymous donor in 2004
Makers and roles
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882), artist
References
Spencer-Longhurst 2011 Paul Spencer-Longhurst, 'Works on paper by Rossetti, Burne-Jones and their contemporaries recently donated to Wightwick Manor', The Burlington Magazine, Vol CLII, no. 1297, April 2011, pp. 232-240, 3. fig. 21 Surtees 1971 Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882). A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols., Oxford 1971, 557