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A very engaging portrait of a pretty young girl holding a posy of flowers. On a large scale, this impressive piece would add grandeur to a hall or drawing room.
William Edwards Miller (1851-1940)
Portrait of a young girl with a posy of flowers
Signed to old label to the reverse
Oil on canvas
35½ x 27½ inches excluding the frame
45½ x 37½ inches with the frame
Presented in a very attractive Watts style frame
William Miller was primarily a society portrait painter but also known as an antiquarian horological collector. He was born in Florence on 24th April 1851 as third son of six, plus two daughters, of John and Harriet Miller (née Edwards). John was usually recorded as an artist himself, including on his marriage at St Pancras, London, on 22nd October 1846 and at his children’s baptisms, but was really a gentleman of private means who was living in Europe for some years when his second and third sons were born. The second was John Douglas Miller, apparently born early in 1850 in Paris, who in 1871 was a co-pupil and just ahead of William in the Royal Academy Schools: he became a well-known mezzotint engraver and protégé of George Richmond. The eldest son was Arthur William Kaye Miller (1849–1914) who in 1871 had just begun a 44-year career at the British Museum where he became an influential bibliographer/cataloguer and eventually Keeper of Printed Books. For his last 23 years there to retirement in 1913 the ordering and printing of its General Catalogue was entirely under his control. He died suddenly in the Museum the following year while showing his daughter a newly opened gallery there.
William Miller began exhibiting at the RA in 1873, with A Study and A Girl’s Head, but mostly portraits and a few more studies and figure subjects following. Up until 1893 he only failed to do so in 1877–1878, 1882, 1884, 1888 and 1891: his more sporadic final RA entries – all portraits – were in 1895, 1900, 1903 and 1909. He also exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy (1891 only), the Grosvenor Gallery, the New Gallery, at Birmingham and at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, but again only up to 1909 at any of them. Thereafter his practice, which included some commissioned copy portraits for Oxford and Cambridge colleges, ran on privately to 1929
Source: Art UK website
- Creator:William Edwards Miller (1851 - 1940, British)
- Dimensions:Height: 35.5 in (90.17 cm)Width: 27.5 in (69.85 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
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- Condition:Very good, ready to hang condition.
- Gallery Location:Harkstead, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1481214360632
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