Jealousy

Details

Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples (1853-1943)
Jealousy
signed and indistinctly inscribed 'Title: Jealousy/by R.P. Staples 30a Marlborough Hill/St. Johns Wood...' on an old label on the stretcher
oil on canvas
51½ x 36 in. (130.8 x 91.4 cm.)

Provenance

London, Royal Society of British Artists, 1880/1, no.114, (42 gns.)

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Lot Essay

It has been suggested that the sitter is a portrait of the artist's wife. According to the artist's diaries, a companion piece entitled Envy was painted at the same time showing the sitter in a white dress, nearer the window, with the same rug and curtain. However, this painting was not exhibited at the R.S.B.A. and its location is unknown.
We are grateful to Hazel Dolling for her help in preparing this entry.

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