A mother washing a little girl
1860
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1860
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
A mother washing a little girl is a 1860 watercolor by Joseph Clark, a British Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Joseph Clark made a gentle watercolour of a mother washing a little girl around 1860. It’s painted in a style that mixes Impressionism and Realism. Clark often painted children and families in everyday moments. He drew first, then painted oils, but used quick watercolours to test ideas. This work shows that early step. He mostly used family as models. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum if you want to see it.
A watercolour by Joseph Clark depicts a mother bathing a young girl, with a basin placed on a chair in a modest cottage interior.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Joseph Clark painted small, delicate watercolors in the 1800s. His works include *A Young Girl Seated* (maybe his daughter “Poppie” at age 100 in 1926) and a sketch for *Private and Confidential*, both in soft washes.…
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![A Young Girl Seated, [perhaps Annie Susan, known as Poppie, the daughter of the artist]](https://pub-3a17a9933ad74fb28aa30fa758592f23.r2.dev/artworks/053607342d92fcb2/thumb.webp)
