The identification of the sitter in Harold Gilman's portraits of Mrs Mounter

• Autores: John Rolfe
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 152, Nº 1285, 2010, págs. 236-238
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The writer offers a new identification of the sitter in Harold Gilman's portraits of Mrs Mounter. The portrait of Mrs Mounter at the breakfast table, which exists in two versions, constitutes one of the most famous and frequently reproduced images of Camden Town School painting. Although the subject has long been identified as Charlotte Mounter, Gilman's landlady at 47 Maple Street in Camden, London, she can now be identified as Ann Emma Mounter. Documentary evidence shows that this Ann Emma Mounter lived at 47 Maple Street, but not until after 1911; was not the owner of 47 Maple Street; was unlikely even to have been subletting rooms to Gilman; probably did work as his charlady; and was a tenant of the owners of 47 Maple Street. The writer goes on to examine this and other information about Ann Emma Mounter.