Philip Wilson Steer, O.M. (1860-1942)

Girl in a Large Hat

Details

Philip Wilson Steer, O.M. (1860-1942)
Girl in a Large Hat
signed and dated 'Steer 92' (upper right)
oil on canvas
24 x 20in. (61 x 50.8cm.)

Provenance

possibly George Moore.
possibly Lady Cunard.

Literature

D.S. MacColl, Philip Wilson Steer, London, 1945, pp.68, 193.
B. Laughton, Philip Wilson Steer 1860-1942, Oxford, 1971, p.133, no.109.

Exhibited

possibly, London, Goupil Gallery, P.W. Steer, 1894, no.42.
possibly, Dublin, 1899 as 'Portrait of a Lady'.
possibly, London, National Portrait Gallery, British Painting since Whistler, 1940, no.64 as 'A Coster Girl'.

Lot Essay

Dr. Bruce Laughton identifies this work with 'Girl in a Large Hat', circa 1892, which he was unable to trace when researching his catalogue raisonné. George Moore had described this work in a letter to Steer in 1909 as the picture of 'a girl in a black hat' (see D.S. MacColl, loc. cit.). It is also the hat and apron of the London coster girls of the period.
(private correspondence, Jan. 1996).

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