Portrait of Mellora Collings
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- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.35
- Description
- Scene with an overall brown/rust tone of a female figure seated in front of a book perhaps, reading, her head is slightly turned to the left.“The only known watercolour portrait by Collings, this affectionate study focuses on the torso of an older woman, her head bent to read a book and her face mi…
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- Title
- Portrait of Mellora Collings
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 15 x 6 cm
- Description
- Scene with an overall brown/rust tone of a female figure seated in front of a book perhaps, reading, her head is slightly turned to the left.“The only known watercolour portrait by Collings, this affectionate study focuses on the torso of an older woman, her head bent to read a book and her face mild and composed. Ivory and peach skin tones are warmed by a background of rose and soft browns.” -- “Charles John Collings, 1848-1931” Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Heath
- Subject
- portrait
- Mellora Collings
- reading
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.05.35
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