An Anxious Hour
London, United Kingdom
Victoria and Albert Museum
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1865
Alexander Farmer (1825-1869)
541-1905
Oil on panel
Height: 11.875 in estimate, Width: 16 in estimate, Height: 51 cm framed, Width: 62 cm framed
United Kingdom
Farmer specialised in genre scenes, often with sentimental subjects. An Anxious Hour reflects the high death rate of Victorian children from disease. The sitter is probably the artist's sister Emily, a watercolourist who painted similar subjects.
Victoria and Albert Museum "An Anxious Hour" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;uk;142;en
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MWNF Working Number: UK 142
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