Photos: Jonathan Russell.

• Title(s): Italian Women in Church (title on frame; Manchester Art Gallery).
• Description: “Two Italian women in peasant dress with headscarves, standing together against an interior background. Both stand looking to the left, one woman carrying a baby in her arms. The painting is realistic, both women have a vacant expression on thier faces, and are looking off in the direction they are facing, to the left” (Manchester Art Gallery).
• Media: Oil on canvas (Manchester Art Gallery).
• Dimensions: “framed: 9 cm (depth); 98 cm (height); 82.5 cm (width) / unframed: 76 cm (height); 61 cm (width)” (Manchester Art Gallery).
• Signature/date/other text: “artist’s inscription : : brc : artist’s name : S. Isabel Dacre” (Manchester Art Gallery).
• History:
  • 1927 – “Manchester Academy of Fine Arts. 68th Annual Exhibition … a portrait study by Miss Isabel S. Dacre of “Italian Women in Church” …” (The Times, 8 Feb 1927).
  • 1927 – “Gift from Francis Dodd [to Manchester Art Gallery]” (artuk.org); “PRESENTED BY A GROUP OF SUBSCRIBERS TO THE CORPORATION OF MANCHESTER 1927” (plaque on frame); “presented to the gallery by a group of subscribers in the spring of this year” (Manchester Guardian, 30 Dec 1927, p. 11).
• Location: Manchester Art Gallery.

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