A Puritan maid dated 1887

Watercolour | 59.5 x 46.8 cm (frame, external) | RCIN 450237

Robert Barnes (1840-95)

Description

A watercolour depicting a young girl standing, three-quarter-length, wearing a grey dress and cap. Signed and dated: "Robert Barnes / 1887". Barnes was a genre and figure painter and a book illustrator. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in the latter decades of the nineteenth century and at the Vienna International Exhibition in 1888.

Provenance

Presented to Queen Victoria in 1887 for her Golden Jubilee as part of the gift from the Royal Watercolour Society
People involved

Creator(s)

Search the collection Robert Barnes (1840-95)
(artist)
Physical properties

Medium and techniques

Watercolour

watercolour painting

Measurements

59.5 x 46.8 cm (frame, external)

27.9 x 18.8 cm (sight)
Groupings
Object type(s)
visual works
drawings/watercolours
References

Other number(s)

DM : Millar, D., 1995. The Victorian Watercolours in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen. 2 vols, London – DM 0200

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