The Theodore Watts-Dunton Folding Press Bed: Jane Morris
Henry Treffry Dunn (Truro 1838 - 1899)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1896 - circa 1898
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
360 x 445 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 1288301.3
Summary
Oil painting on panel (upper tier), Jane Morris by Henry Treffry Dunn (Truro 1838 - 1899), circa 1896-98. Possibly inspired by 'The Prisoner's Daughter' (Surtees No. 218), a crayon drawing of 1870 owned by Watts-Dunton, or by a study of 'Jane Morris reading a newspaper' (Surtees No. 376, Bryson collection, Ashmolean Museum)
Provenance
Theodore Watts-Dunton; Clara Watts-Dunton; Sotheby 22 March 1939: sale of the contents of No. 2 The Pines, purchased by FrankTilley; sold by him to Geoffrey Mander April 1939 for £4;transferred to the National Trust on the death of Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander (1882-1962)
Makers and roles
Henry Treffry Dunn (Truro 1838 - 1899), artist Thomas Keynes, woodcarver