Sunday, June 25, 2023

Portrayals of Unnamed Persons by Royal Academicians

Arthur George Walker
Portrait of a Lady in a Red Dress
ca. 1910
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Ethel Walker
Bust of the Artist's Italian Model
ca. 1900
plaster
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Ethel Walker
Bust of the Artist's Italian Model
ca. 1900
bronze
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Ethel Walker
Portrait of a Woman with a Yellow Scarf
ca. 1930-40
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Ethel Walker
The Jade Necklace
ca. 1930-40
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

George Clausen
Portrait of a Woman
before 1944
drawing
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Frederic, Lord Leighton
Head of a Woman
ca. 1880-90
drawing
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Edward John Gregory
Head of a Young Woman
1902
watercolor
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Roger De Grey
Girl with a Fan
ca. 1954
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

David Muirhead
Girl at the Mirror
1928
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Kyffin Williams
German Girl
ca. 1963
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

George Harcourt
Three Sisters
1922
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

William Owen
Cottage Children
ca. 1804-1814
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

William Orpen
Masked Figures
ca. 1910
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Annie Louisa Swynnerton
The Letter
ca. 1900-1920
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

John Gilbert
The Trumpeter
1865
watercolor and gouache
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Speaker

My talking heart talked less of what it knew
Than what it saw. 
Look, look, said it.
An index to the sights.

Spoke less it saw than what it wished it saw.
See, see, said it.
An index to the heart
And not the countryside.

My talking heart, will it then round the task
From look and look
To say, I wish and want
And say, I know?

– Josephine Miles (1945)