Photos/images: Jonathan Russell/Manchester Art Gallery.

• Media: oil on canvas.
• Dimensions: canvas 66.5 x 52.3 cm, frame 84.1 x 69.6 x 6.5 cm.
• History:
  • Feb 1886 – Exhibited Manchester Academy (The Manchester Weekly Times, 27 Feb 1886).
  • 1891 – “in the possession of Susan Isabel Dacre“.
  • 1891 – “the purchase of the portrait of Miss Becker, by Miss S. I. Dacre [by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage was definately determined on” (Janet Horowitz Murray and Myra Stark (1891) The Englishwoman’s Review of Social and Industrial Questions: 1891.)
  • 1896 – Exhibited Earl’s Court Victorian Era Exhibition.
  • 1920 – “gift from the National Union of Women’s Suffrage [to Manchester Art Gallery].”
• Location: Manchester Art Gallery.

The portrait can arguably be dated to 1885, having being exhibited at the Manchester Academy in February 1886 (The Manchester Weekly Times, 27 Feb 1886), presuming this was the first showing after completion. The newspaper article article gives the work great praise, commenting on the delicate tones and ’emotion’ of the picture

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Page last updated 27 May 2025.