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The Schoolgirl
STEER, Philip Wilson (1860 - 1942)
[image: The Schoolgirl]
Date: 1906
Media: oil on canvas
Size: 81.7 x 66.9 cm
Acquired: 1907; Purchase; Pyke Thompson funds
Accession Number: NMW A 172
Steer was a leading representative of Impressionism in England and his students at the Slade School of Art included Augustus and Gwen John and J.D.Innes. This is the first of several paintings of Lilian Montgomery. Not a professional model, she is here aged fourteen and dressed in Paris high fashion of 1904.
This work is currently on display:
Gallery 15
National Museum Cardiff, level 4
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Lesley Wray on 20 February 2009, 15:51
Please put this back on display, she is lovely
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