Study of a girl, half-length, in profile

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Joseph Edward Southall, R.W.S., N.E.A.C. (1861-1944)
Study of a girl, half-length, in profile
signed with monogram and dated '1918' (in a cartouche, lower left)
silverpoint
5½ x 3½ in. (14 x 8.9 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Southall was born in Nottingham and grew up in Birmingham. His parents both came from distinguished Quaker families. As a young man he worked in an architectural practice and pursued his art studies at evening classes; he was also encouraged by Burne-Jones and Sir William Blake Richmond (see lot 29). He was elected to the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour in 1931.

Southall was passionate about Italy and spent a great deal of time looking at the Italian Primitives; this led him to develop a taste for tempera that would lead him and others to found the Society of Painters in Tempera in 1901. Along with fellow artist A.J. Gaskin (see lot 192) he was a member of the 'Birmingham School'.

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