Red chalk heightened with white; monogrammed and dated 1894
Tags: Joseph Southall chalk allegory leisure life drawing portraits women 1.Master Drawings 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Provenance: The Lyndon Goodwin Harris Collection of Watercolours; Maas Gallery
Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.88.
Exhibited Maas Gallery, Drawings 2013
This is a study for a portrait of Anna Elizabeth Baker, painted in tempera on panel in 1895, Southall's future wife. They married her in 1903, having delayed for years, out of a sense of propriety because they were first cousins.
She appears in many of Southall's pictures including his celebrated double portrait The Agate, 1911
We are grateful to George Breeze for assistance.
