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Robert Alexander
Two mothers (c. 1888)
oil on canvas
101.9 × 139.9 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1920
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Two mothers
(c. 1888)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
101.9 × 139.9 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1920
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in black paint l.l.: R.S.A. R. ALEXANDER
Accession Number
1047-3
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Dame Carol Colburn-Grigor CBE through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Agriculture Animals
Subjects (specific)
barns barrels (containers) chicken (species) chicks donkeys foals maternity mothers
Provenance
Exhibited Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1888, no. 313; purchased at auction, Edinburgh, by Charles Cook, before 1920[i]; his collection, Edinburgh, until 1920; from whom purchased, on the advice of Frank Rinder, for the Felton Bequest, 1920.[ii]
[i] Details unknown; however it has been suggested that this painting was possibly in the collection of a Dr Alexander Keiller (1811–93).
[ii] See Frank Rinder correspondence, letter no. 382, 27 January 1920 (20/382), NGV; L. B. Cox, The National Gallery of Victoria, 1861 to 1968: A search for a collection, Melbourne, 1971, p. 430, n. 16
Exhibited: Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1888, no. 313; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1919, no. 394, lent by Charles Cook.