Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1860 - 1937. Author
About this artwork
The novelist and dramatist J.M.Barrie is best known as the creator of Peter Pan, or The boy who never grew up. This portrait was painted when the artist was working on the costumes for the first stage production of Peter Pan at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, in 1904. Barrie agreed to sit between rehearsals but said 'I have long ceased to be on speaking terms with my face, so why have it painted?' The composition, with the relatively small figure surrounded by empty space, hints at the essential loneliness of a man who always regretted leaving the world of childhood behind.
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title:Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1860 - 1937. Author
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accession number:PG 1438
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materials:Oil on canvas
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date created:1904
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measurements:58.40 x 52.70 cm (framed: 80.30 x 75.00 x 7.50 cm)
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credit line:Purchased with assistance from the Art Fund 1943
Sir William Nicholson
Sir William Nicholson
William Nicholson was the son of a wealthy Nottinghamshire industrialist. He trained in London at Herkomer's School alongside the Scottish students, Mabel and James Pryde, in 1888-89. After a year in Paris at the Académie Julian, he and James Pryde, as the 'Beggarstaff Brothers', collaborated on well-known series of posters.…