Title(s): New-risen Hope (Tate) (this web site); variously spelled with or without hyphen or all words capitalised; The New-risen Hope (The Art News, 1 March 1924).
Description: Upper body of a young child, unclothed, arms held out at it’s sides and only finished to the wrists, background of subdued blues, greys and pale tones. There is very faintly the shape of a wing behind the left shoulder, either over-painted or deliberately depicted obscure.
TATE AGAIN BUYS A SWYNNERTON WORK … The Tate Gallery has bought a second example of the work of our one woman Academician, Mrs. Swynnerton, who, at the age of eighty, is painting with as much grip and mastery as ever. The picture, which is named ‘The New-risen Hope,’ is a study of a child rising out of a cloud of mist, and in the foreground are children drawn from the daughters of Lord Crawford.* The purchase was made through the Chantry Bequest.
[* David Lindsey (1871-1940), 27th Earl of Crawford, Conservative politician, Chancellor of the University of Manchester between 1923 and 1940 and a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. He had two sons and six daughters.]
“This work appears to have been painted on a much larger piece of canvas from which it has been cut and then paste lined onto a linen lining canvas to allow stretching. This may well have been done at the instigation of the artist. Ruled lines are visible beneath the paint indicating the cutting line or picture area proposed. There appears to be marked later paint applications which may have been done after the lining … high density paint (lead white) might indicate wings to the right and left of the figure … visible to the naked eye as brush mark texture showing through final paint …”
It would appear from these texts that there is evidence the painting was larger and, if the 1924 article is correct, included other figures.
Both versions of New-risen Hope, the Tate and the Melbourne versions, are dated by Annie ‘1904.’ However, The Magazine of Art mentions that “New Risen Hope” – presumed here to be to be the above ‘Tate’ version – was on display at the New Gallery in 1903.
Title(s): New-risen Hope (Melbourne) (this web site); variously spelled with or without hyphen or all words capitalized.
Description: A young child, unclothed, arms raised, partly obscured by a flowing green cloth, background of subdued blues and greys. There is a discontinuous rainbow the right of child, and it a small, yellow butterfly settled on it’s chest.
There is a yellow butterfly on the chest of the child. Nude in landscape also has a yellow mark, possibly intended to be a butterfly or butterflies, on the chest:
ANNIE LOUISA SWYNNERTON (1844-1933) 
