
Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Provenance
Charles Head (1850-1926) and thence by descent to the present owner
Charles Head was a Colchester-based artist who specialised in ecclesiastical decoration (one example of his work being the reredos of All Saint's Church, Basingstoke). Colchester and Ipswich Museums Service retains a number of portraits painted by him.
The central figure of Joy comes very close to that in a Scena Allegorica also by Carpioni which was previously on the art market in Florence (Fondazione Zeri ref. 56923). She is similarly shown with the figure of Obstinacy beside her.