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Provenance
Commissioned by the parents of the sitter, thence by family descent
Private Collection, U.K.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition, 1965, cat.no.128
Dod Procter (née Doris Shaw) attended the Stanhope Forbes School of Painting from 1907-1908 at the age of fifteen and there met her future husband Ernest Procter. Her prodigious talent became clear during the 1920s when she painted a series of portraits, usually of women, often in classical poses but with a soft focus creating an aura of sensuality. These works were considered radical for the time and her celebrated canvas Morning (1926, Tate Gallery), depicting a young Newlyn fisherman's daughter lying on a bed in her nightdress, was voted picture of the year at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1927. Frank Rutter, art critic for The Sunday Times, commented that Morning was 'a new vision of the human figure which amounts to the invention of a twentieth-century style in portraiture'. Procter was elected a Royal Academician in 1942 and continued to exhibit widely throughout her career.