Vanessa BELL (1879-1961)

THE RED DRESS, 1929
Signed: Vanessa Bell, black paint, lower left
Oil on canvas, 73.3 x 60.5 cm
000394

Exhibited
London, Reid and Lefevre Gallery, 1934, no. 8.

The sitter was Lady Stephen (née Julia Jackson, later Duckworth [1846-1895]), Vanessa Bell's mother.  It was painted from a photograph taken by Julia Margaret Cameron (c.f. Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women by Julia Margaret Cameron.  Introduction by Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry, Hogarth Press, London 1926, Plate 19).