Photos: Jonathan Russell.

• Title(s): Portrait of Florence H. Musgrave (this web site); Mrs Florence H. Musgrave (artuk.com).
• Description: Bust portrait of a young woman in a pink, high-collared top decorated with flowers on her right upper chest and an elaborate jewelled necklace, her body turned slightly to the frame right and head fully right giving profile, background of a generally ruddy-brown brushwork.
• Media: oil on canvas (artuk.com).
• Dimensions: 49.5 x 40.6 cm (artuk.com).
• Signature/date/other text: “Florence.”, obscurely, to the right of the subject’s forehead; The letters A, L and R combined in a monogram with the date 1883 below, numbers arranged in a diamond formation, ‘1’ to the left, ‘3’ to the right, the ‘8’s down the middle, red paint.
• History:
  • 1883 – Signed with monogram and dated.
  • 1934 – “bequeathed [to Nottingham Art Gallery] by Mrs F. H. Musgrave, 1934” (artuk.com).
  • 2018-2019 – Exhibited Manchester Art Gallery, 23 Feb 2018 to 6 Jan 2019.
• Location: Nottingham City Museum and Art Galleries.

“Florence Hawksley Musgrave (née Hawksley) (1851-1930), daughter of Nottingham civil engineer Thomas Hawksley FRS [1808-1893] … she remained unmarried until 1894” [Notice by picture during 2018-2019 Painting Light and Hope exhibition, Manchester Art Gallery].

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