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Creator:
Frederick Sandys, 1829–1904
Title:
Grace Charlotte Rose (née Snow), Lady Rose [2024, YCBA]
Former Title(s):
Grace Rose [2008, YCBA]
Date:
1866
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
22 x 17 7/8 inches (55.9 x 45.4 cm), Frame: 28 x 24 x 3 inches (71.1 x 61 x 7.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed, upper left: "Grace Rose"

Dated, upper left: "A.D. 1866"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1993.20
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1993.20FR
Subject Terms:
botany | bracelet | coat of arms | collar | costume | crest | decorative | earrings | figures | flowers (plants) | Japanese | jewels | leaves | necklace | painting (visual work) | pearls | portrait | ring | roses (plant) | science | smooth | vase | Victorian | woman
Associated People:
Rose, Grace Charlotte (née Snow, ca. 1834–1914), Lady Rose
Access:
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1381
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Lady Grace Charlotte Rose was the daughter of Captain Winterton Snow of the Madras Army and the wife of Sir William Anderson Rose, whose portrait Frederick Sandys also painted, along with several other members of the family. The armorial shield and crest in the top right of this picture carries the Rose family motto: “Constant and true.” Sandys was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and in this portrait, he bypassed the British portrait tradition exemplified by Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough to draw on early Netherlandish and German paintings. Eclectic influences inform the details, from her gold jewelry and the jar in the foreground, which are modeled on antiquarian designs, to the traditional Japanese figures that appear on the screen behind her. These appropriations reflect Sandys’s sympathies with both Pre-Raphaelitism and aestheticism, including James McNeill Whistler and Albert Moore, who were similarly invested in strongly decorative effects and Eastern motifs.

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016


The impact of early Netherlandish art and of the later Pre-Raphaelites can be detected in this smoothly painted portrait of the bejewelled Grace Charlotte, Lady Rose, daughter of Captain Winterton Snow of the Madras Army and wife of Sir William Anderson Rose, whose portrait Sandys also painted. So too, the elaborate screen behind her, painted with Japanese figures, demonstrates the fascination with Japonisme that Sandys shared with other avant-garde artists in England, such as Albert Moore and James McNeill Whistler. From the 1860s onward, with the opening up of Meiji Japan, western artists readily borrowed eastern elements and incorporated them into their pictures for purely decorative, rather than symbolic, purposes. The armorial shield and crest in the top right of the picture carries the Rose family motto: "Constant and true."

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2008

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Frederick Sandys and the Pre-Raphaelites (Norwich Castle Museum, 2001-10-06 - 2002-01-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Advertisement [Phillips London], Burlington Magazine, vol 133, London, August 1991, inside cover, B1 B87 133 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Art Reporduction, Burlington Magazine, vol. 133, August 1991, inside cover, N1 B87 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Stephen Calloway, The cult of beauty : the aesthetic movement 1860-1900, V&A Publishing, London, 2011, pp. 160, 162, pl. 142, N6767.5 A3 C85 2011 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

William S. A. Dale, Portrait by Fred Sandys, Burlington Magazine, vol 107, May 1965, p. 252, N1 B87 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Also available online at JSTOR [YCBA]

Betty Elzea, A Singular Man : A documented life of the artist Frederick Sandys: 1829-1904, , Unicorn Press, Nowich, UK, 2023, pp. 92, 360, NJ18 .Sa577 E49 2023 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Betty Elzea, Frederick Sandys 1829-1904, A Catalogue Raisonne , Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 2001, pp. 18, 23, 52, 184, no. 2.A.87, pl. 25, NJ18 Sa577 A12 E59 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Fine Arts, Era, London, 11 November 1866, p. 6, Available online: 19th Century British Library Newspapers [ORBIS]

Frederick Sandys, Art Journal, March 1884, pp. 73-78, J10 Ar74 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Also available online at British Periodicals [YCBA]

French Gallery, Fourteenth Annual Winter Exhibition of Pictures, the Contributions of British Artists ... at the French Gallery , W. S. Johnson, London, 1866, p. 189, Not Available at Yale

Charlotte Gere, Jewellery in the age of Queen Victoria, a mirror to the world , British Museum, London, 2010, pp. 184-85, fig. 138, NK7309.8 G46 2010 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

J. M. Gray, Frederick Sandys and the Wood-cut Designers of Thirty Years Ago, Century Guild Hobby Horse, London, October 1888, p. 155, Available online: British Periodicals [ORBIS]

Matthew Hargraves, "Yale Center for British Art joins Art UK", ArtUK, 24 June 2019, https://artuk.org/discover/stories/yale-center-for-british-art-joins-art-uk [Website]

Observations on Art, Speaker: The Liberal View, 13 February 1904, p. 471, Available online: British Periodicals [ORBIS]

Our Library Table, Mercury and Daily Post, Bristol, England, 23 December 1896, p. 3, Available online: 19th Century British Library Newspapers [ORBIS]

Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Sip of Royal Sherry, The Times (London), London, 16 November 1991, p. 13, Available online: Times Digital Archive Also available on Microfilm: Film An T482 (SML) [ORBIS]

Thomas Tuohy, Frederick Sandys, British Art Journal, vol 3, London, Spring 2002, p. 83, N6761 B74 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Also available online at JSTOR [YCBA]

Esther Wood, Consideration of the Art of Frederick Sandys, Archibald Constable and Company, Limited, London, 1897, pp. 47, 63, NJ18 Sa577 W6 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]


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