Bennet Alder, B :[Katherine Mansfield in 1913] / B. Bennet Alder 1930

Bennet Alder, B :[Katherine Mansfield in 1913] / B. Bennet Alder 1930
Date
1913 - 1914
By
Bennet-Alder, Benjamin, 1897-1976; Bell, Vera Margaret, 1885-1974; Beauchamp, Harold (Sir), 1858-1938
Reference
Curios-018-011
Description

Miniature head and shoulders portrait

There is also an earlier and smaller version of this, location unknown, also attributed to B. Bennet Alder. (Information from the Library's Curios shelf-list). A visiting expert on hand-colouring of photographs (2004) considered the Library's version to be a carefully hand-coloured sepia photograph. B. Bennet Alder is therefore likely to be only a colourist, not the artist.

Exhibited in 'A Meeting of Cultures: France and New Zealand' exhibition of early French views of New Zealand and of Katherine Mansfield manuscripts, translations into French and curios, held at Alexander Turnbull Library, 2 to 30 March 1999.

Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995.

Quantity: 1 curio(s).

Physical Description: Watercolour over photograph, 95 x 70 mm on oval card in silk-lined folded blue morocco case, 155 x 127 x 28 mm

Provenance: Commissioned in 1932 by Katherine Mansfield's sister, Vera Mackintosh Bell, in Canada, as a hand-painted copy by English artist B. Bennet Alder of a 1913 photograph, for Katherine Mansfield's father, Harold Beauchamp.

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Format
1 curio(s), Curios, Watercolours, Portraits, Watercolour over photograph, 95 x 70 mm on oval card in silk-lined folded blue morocco case, 155 x 127 x 28 mm, Orientation: Oval image, vertical
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