Friendship and Loss in the Victorian Portrait

Friendship and Loss in the Victorian Portrait

EnglishPaperback / softback
Warner, Malcolm
Yale University Press
EAN: 9780300121353
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This original and eloquent study brings Frederic Leighton’s portrait of May Sartoris to life as an expression of the artist’s remarkable friendship with May’s mother, celebrated opera singer Adelaide Sartoris. The young Leighton frequented Adelaide’s artistic and literary salon in Rome in the early 1850s, and was on intimate terms with her by the time he painted her daughter’s likeness in England around 1860. Malcolm Warner places the work both within the tradition of British child portraiture since Joshua Reynolds and within its immediate biographical setting. Bringing together much new research into the circumstances of its creation, he suggests that its wistful mood and intimations of mortality reflect Adelaide Sartoris’s melancholy temperament as well as Victorian views of childhood.



Distributed for the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
EAN 9780300121353
ISBN 0300121350
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Yale University Press
Publication date September 29, 2009
Pages 88
Language English
Dimensions 235 x 191
Country United States
Readership General
Authors Warner, Malcolm
Illustrations 8 b-w + 40 color illus.
Series Kimbell Masterpiece Series