Study for 'Miss Ruth Stewart Hodgson': Composition

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Miss Ruth Stewart Hodgson': Composition
Date: c.1877
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 32.7 x 23.2 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0900
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Sketch for portrait" in pencil. Inscribed lower right "51 / x / 36" in black chalk. Inscribed lower right "390" in pencil. Stamped lower left corner "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on reverse, centre "256" encircled, i

Interpretation

Miss Ruth Stewart Hodgson was the daughter of Leighton's patron and friend James Steward Hodgeson.

Description

Study for the composition of the painting 'Miss Ruth Stewart Hodgson' (c.1878, untraced). 

Provenance

Bequeathed by the artist to his sisters, Mrs. Augusta Matthews (n+e Augusta Neunburg Leighton, 1835-1919) and Mrs. Alexandra Orr (n+e Alexandra Leighton, 1828-1903); purchased by the Fine Art Society in 1896; collection of Leighton House Museum