| Mrs James Wyatt Jr and her Daughter Sarah | |
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| Artist | John Everett Millais |
| Year | c. 1850 |
| Type | Oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 35.3 cm× 45.7 cm(13.9 in× 18.0 in) |
| Location | Tate Gallery, London |
Mrs James Wyatt Jr and her Daughter Sarah is a portrait by English artist John Everett Millais, painted c. 1850. It is a companion piece to Millais' 1849 James Wyatt and his Granddaughter Mary .
James Wyatt had known Millais since at least 1846, when Millais made a watercolour portrait of Wyatt's granddaughter Mary (1845–1903, later Mrs James Standen). [1] Wyatt commissioned Millais to paint James Wyatt and his Granddaughter Mary in 1849, and this painting of his daughter-in-law and granddaughter, Mrs James Wyatt Jr and her Daughter Sarah, was produced in c. 1850 as its pendant, a matching-sized pair. [1] Millais had also painted four of the Wyatt children in Portrait of Four Children of the Wyatt Family in 1849.
The sitters are Eliza Wyatt (née Moorman) (1813–1895), [1] wife of James Wyatt junior, [2] and their daughter Sarah (17 January 1849 – 1916, later Mrs Thomas). [1] [3] There is some uncertainty over the date of the execution of the painting, but given the apparent age of Sarah in the portrait, a date of c. 1850 seems more likely that the other suggested date of 1853. [3]
The painting was purchased by the Tate Gallery, London in 1984 from a descendant of the Wyatt family. [3]
The painting has been exhibited at The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood exhibition, Birmingham City Art Gallery June–July 1947, no. 47; The Pre-Raphaelites exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery April–May 1948, no. 42; British Portraits exhibition, Royal Academy, London November 1956–March 1957, no. 439; Millais exhibition, Royal Academy, London January–March 1967 and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, March–April 1967, no. 21; The Pre-Raphaelites exhibition, Tate Gallery, March–May 1984 no. 29. [3]
