Study of J. Archibald Kenrick with Harborne Hall in the background

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Joseph Edward Southall, R.W.S. (1861-1944)
Study of J. Archibald Kenrick with Harborne Hall in the background
signed with monogram and dated '1923' (lower left)
coloured chalks, unframed
14 x 10 in. (35.5 x 25.5 cm.); and ten unframed portrait studies of men, including the first study for the 'Portrait of Ralph Heaton of the Mint, Birmingham', all by the same hand (11)

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Lot Essay

The finished portrait of J. Archibald Kenrick, dated 1922, was included in the 1980 exhibition, no. H4 (illustrated in catalogue). Southall had also painted the sitter's father, John Arthur Kenrick, in 1913 (1980 exhibition no. H3, illustrated in catalogue). Although the portraits are separated by nine years, they were conceived as a pair, having a similar format and identical frames. The Kenricks were one of Birmingham's most distinguished families.

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