Friendly critics
1907
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 142.4 × 132.3 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in black paint l.r.: C.L. Jenkins / '07
- Accession Number
- 764-2
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by the artist under the terms of the National Gallery of Victoria Travelling Scholarship, 1915
© The Estate of Constance L. Jenkins
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- 19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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In 1908, Constance Jenkins became the first woman to win the coveted National Gallery Travelling Scholarship with this painting. The award was the country’s richest art prize and allowed Jenkins to study overseas for two years. She travelled throughout Britain, France and Italy. After marrying, Jenkins settled in California where she continued her career as an artist.
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Interiors Relationships and Interactions
- Subjects (specific)
- arm palettes art criticism painters (artists) studio easels studios (work spaces) women (female humans)
- Frame
- Reproduction, 2011, based on a photograph from 1909
Frame
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Friendly critics by Constance Jenkins was without a frame when the painting was restored in 2010. Details of the painting as it first appeared were found initially in 2009 among the papers of Bernard Hall (Director of the NGV 1891-35). In 2010, an article was located in a copy of 'New Idea' from 1909 which showed the painting and complete frame. Images of the frame were scaled up and the profile extrapolated from the various images.
The painting was fitted in the completed reproduction frame in 2011.
- Framemaker
- Reproduction - commissioned by the NGV
- Date
- 2011
- Materials
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Timber. Surface gilded and toned.