RALPH PEACOCK (BRITISH 1868-1946)PORTRAIT OF ETHEL BRIGNALLOil on canvasSigned (lower left)61 x 50.5cm (24 x 19¾ in.)Provenance:Sir James ReynoldsEthel Brignall was the younger sister of Ralph Peacock's wife, Edith, and a favourite model of Peacock's at the turn of the century. Peacock's full length depiction of her at fourteen in 1897 (Tate Britain) was one of the most popular pictures in the Tate gallery in the early 20th century, and The Sisters (1900) a portrait of Ethel and Edith also resides in the Tate. The current portrait was similarly painted around 1897, when Ethel was still in her teens. Her wild look is reminiscent of Romney's paintings of Emma Hamilton as a bacchante. Peacock married Edith in 1901 and in 1908 Ethel married Harold A. Titcomb, an American mining engineer.