Sirens. Henrietta Rae (1859–1928). Oil on canvas. Royal Academy 1903. Source: Wikimedia Commons. According to Arthur Fish, “Sirens, which secured a place of honour at the Academy of 1903, a “centre” on the line, was the outcome of a suggestion made to the artist by Lord Dufferin. The painting was thus referred to in the Magazine of Art: “The large, gracefully composed canvas of ‘Sirens,’ modelled with unusual care, presents a colour-surface of broken tones which constitute a great advance upon the artist’s previous achievements” (110-11).
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Fish, Arthur. Henrietta Rae (Mrs. Ernest Normand). Cassell and Company, 1905.
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