Sir John Lavery, R.A., R.S.A., R.H.A. (1856-1941)

細節

Sir John Lavery, R.A., R.S.A., R.H.A. (1856-1941)

Her First Disappointment

signed and dated lower left J. Lavery 1880, oil on canvas
27 x 20in. (68.5 x 51cm.)

Sold with the original receipt from the artist to the present owner's great uncle

來源

Terry Stevenson, Glasgow, November 1880, purchased directly from the artist and thence by descent to the present owner

出版

K. McConkey, Fine Art Soicety Exhibition Catalogue, 1984, p.14 (illustrated)

展覽

Edinburgh, Fine Art Society, Sir John Lavery 1856-1941, August - September 1984, no. 1 (illustrated): this exhibition travelled to London, Fine Art Society; Belfast, Ulster Museum and Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland

拍品專文

'Lavery's first works show no particular committment to any specific genre, By producing a variety of costume pieces, sentimental pictures, head studies and landscapes, he hoped to identify a clientele. Amongst his first supporters was the Glasgow photographer, Terence Stevenson who, at the end of November 1880, purchased 'Her First Disappointment' along with two landscapes and a picture of Gretchen of Heidleberg (private collection). The model for 'Her First Dissapointment' was a Gaiety skipping rope dancer, Connie Gilchrist (1865-1946). In 1892 she was to marry the 7th Earl of Orkney, She had been painted by Whistler as 'Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl' (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), a memorable portrait exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1879. A further unfinished full-length by Whistler is contained in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow'
(K. McConkey, Op. Cit.)