Revising the web site, have settled on some name changes for certain works:

• An Italian mother and child → Italian Mother and Child.
  • The latter is the title on the work’s frame so I think original.
• Maternité → Woman with an infant and young girl.
  • The French 2012 auction catalogue states “Maternité … titrée au verso [titled on the back]”. The Sotheby’s auction, London 1977, catalogue states “A MOTHER AND CHILD / inscribed on the reverse”. There are actually two children in the work, so I have created a purely descriptive title.
• The Sense of Sight (Summerfield) → The Sense of Sight (1898).
  • The work was part of the Summerfield collection, but it seems more appropriate to identify the work by it’s given date.
• The Sense of Sight (Liverpool) → The Sense of Sight (1895).
  • Having changed the above works title, just seemed logical to change the ‘Liverpool’ work in a similar way for consistency.
• Study of nude children → Study of boys bathing.
  • I recall identifying this work by size as probably being a ‘study of boys bathing’ by Annie, but have unfortunately mislaid the reference. I suspect this is one of the two ‘studies of naked boys’ in Annie’s posthumous auction catalogue, lot 98, as the difficult-to-read writing on the back of the work implies.
• Head of a girl → The head of a woman.
  • I feel it more appropriate not to label a female a ‘girl’, unless they really are a child.
• The Oreades → Oreads.
  • ‘Oreads’ is the title on the plaque at the base of the painting’s frame and in the 1907 Royal Academy exhibition catalogue, the first time it was exhibited publically as far as is known. The work is titled variously Oreads/Oreades/The Oreads/The Oreades in publications over the years.
• Siena → Siena, looking towards the Torre del Mangia.
  • As more scenic works have emerged over that past few years (applies to both Annie and Isabel), I felt a more specific descriptive title for each work is appropriate, unless there is evidence for an original title given to a work by the artist.
• The Town of Siena → Siena, looking up to the Cathederal (Duomo di Siena).
  • As above.

Had considered changing ‘Victorian Woodland Maiden‘ to a descriptive title, but on second thoughts the current vendor’s title is perfectly valid, in just the same way the untitled work sold by Christie’s in 2018 became ‘The Lady in White‘, a title I think created by the auction house and by which it is now know in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

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Jonathan Russell.