Mrs. Fanny Eaton
Mrs. Fanny Eaton

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Mrs. Fanny Eaton,

ca. 1859

Walter Fryer Stocks, 1842–1915; born London, England
2016-1
This is a portrait of the mixed-race model Fanny Eaton, who moved with her mother, a former slave, from Jamaica to London in the 1840s. Eaton worked as a cleaner and cook while posing for many Pre-Raphaelite painters. Best known as a minor landscape watercolorist, Walter Fryer Stocks was still a teenager when he made this highly finished drawing, in which he used a meticulous stippled chalk technique to highly expressive effect, conveying an alluring and introspective sensuality in the sitter’s asymmetrical glance and parted lips.
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Magazine: Spring 2016

Information

Title
Mrs. Fanny Eaton
Dates

ca. 1859

Maker
Walter Fryer Stocks
Medium
Black, red, and white chalk
Dimensions
43.2 × 34.9 cm (17 × 13 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Surdna Fund
Object Number
2016-1
Place Made

Europe, England, London

Culture
British
Period
Pre-Raphaelite
Type
drawings
Materials
black chalk, red chalk, chalk, wove paper
Techniques
stippling
Subject
portraits, women, necklaces, figures (representations)

The artist’s family; Maas Gallery, London

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