Pluming the Helmet
James Clarke Hook, RA, 1819-1907
c. 1852 (see McMaster 92)
Oil on canvas
H 65 x W 47 cm.
© Worcester City Museums, accession no. FA039
No wonder Juliet McMaster sees this as an "appealing composition" (91). Assessing the effect of the feathered adornment, perhaps intended as a painter's prop, the young woman in her rose-coloured dress is herself as pretty as a picture. Text by Jacqueline Banerjee; photograph kindly released on the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence (CC BY-NC-SA), and downloaded from Art UK. [Click on the image to enlarge it, and mouse over the text for links.]
