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An Irresistible Appeal

John Bagnold Burgess (1829–1897)

Touchstones Rochdale

An Irresistible Appeal

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John Bagnold Burgess was born in Chelsea and became a student in the Royal Academy in 1849. A visit to Spain with fellow artist Edwin Long was the first of many trips that influenced Burgess’ adoption of Spanish subjects. He also travelled to North Africa. It was long thought that this was a courtship painting, in which a finely dressed young woman looks admiringly at her suitor while her chaperone watches from the doorway, but it could also represent a young woman imploring her father to consider a letter from a suitor in a favourable light.

Touchstones Rochdale

Rochdale

Title

An Irresistible Appeal

Date

1877

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 81.4 x W 102 cm

Accession number

204

Acquisition method

gift from Robert Taylor Heape, 1911

Work type

Painting

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John Bagnold Burgess

1829–1897

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