Mother and Child
Datec.1910
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsObject/Work: 762 x 635 mm
ClassificationsArtworks/Commemorations/Photographs
Terms
Object numberGA1313
DescriptionAn interior, domestic scene depicting a mother and child on a chaise longue in the bay of a large window. It is likely that the models are the artist's wife, Ethel, and their baby, Kathleen. Ethel was Wells' principal model and she also sat for the artist Henry Tonks who was also Wells' tutor at the Slade School of Fine Art.Such private and serene scenes of female-focussed, Edwardian domesticity are not uncommon in Well's oil paintings. The scenes are perfectly composed and arranged with high levels of precision, although they might offer feelings of detachment or quiet reflection on behalf of the artist.
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E. Calcott
1901
1780 - 1800
