Head of a Girl in Profile
Sir John Everett Millais
- Art Funded
- 1965
- Dimensions
- 15.2 x 12.1 cm
- Bequeathed by
- B P and M D Legge through The Art Fund
Black drapery partly painted in down the back of her head, perhaps a ribbon or hanging from a cap.
Black drapery partly painted in down the back of her head, perhaps a ribbon or hanging from a cap.
The Weld Collection of Old Master Drawings was funded in 1995. With more than 300 works from the 15th to the 18th centuries, artists represented include Mantegna, Tintoretto and Rubens.
Nicolas Poussin's Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion is one of the artist's finest works. Poussin depicts the widow of the murdered Phocion nervously gathering his ashes for burial, while clusters of people enjoy the sunshine outside the city walls of Athens in the background.