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Olive Margaret Slaughter,
1899
Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys, 1829–1904; born Norwich, England; died London, England
1996-61
In 1857, Sandys joined the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a circle of painters and poets surrounding Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The group intended to cleanse British art of the excessive expressive mannerisms they believed had been introduced into European culture in the late Renaissance, turning instead to the craft-based art of the Middle Ages for inspiration. While the Pre-Raphaelites admired Sandys for his engravings, the artist is best remembered today for his meticulous portraits of fashionable women, painted and drawn in a style derived from early modern Flemish and German masters such as Hans Holbein and Albrecht Dürer.
Information
Title
Olive Margaret Slaughter
Dates
1899
Medium
Colored chalk and graphite
Dimensions
77.5 x 54.5 cm (30 1/2 x 21 7/16 in.)
frame: 87 × 64 × 4.5 cm (34 1/4 × 25 3/16 × 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Surdna Fund
Object Number
1996-61
Signatures
Titled, dated, and signed, upper left: Olive Margaret Slaughter. 1899. |PP Sandys.
Culture
Type
Materials
Purchased from Peter Nahum, London (cat. no. 11: A Century of Master Drawings, Watercolours, & Works in Egg Tempera [London, 1995] no. 67, illus.). Cf. catalogue for sitter. Formerly L.1996.15. (See reference Bib. 4828);
