Initialled l.r.: and inscribed on the old backboard

Pencil, 13.5 by 12 cm

Provenance: the Maas Gallery

Peacock specialised in portraiture, gaining particular recognition for his pretty paintings and sketches of women and children. A good example is the double portrait The Sisters from 1900 (now in the Tate (acc.1772) a fine demonstration of Peacock’s technical ability showing his beguilingly soft palette as an artist. It also betrays his background as a pupil at the Royal Academy Schools and his admiration for High Victorian painters such as J.W.Godward, Frederic, Lord Leighton and Herbert Draper. His one-man show Profile Portraits and Children’s Pictures was held at Barbizon House in 1935.