Portrait of a young girl
(1890)

Tom ROBERTS (attributed to)

Medium: oil on canvas
Measurements: 47.2 × 39.1 cm
Accession Number: A19-1972
Department: Australian Painting
Credit Line: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mrs J. Richter, 1972
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Gallery location: Not on display
Subjects (general): Portraits
Subjects (specific): girls half figures profiles (figures) single-sitter portraits youth (people)
Movements: Australian Impressionism Heidelberg School

Frame

The frame represents a merging of Louis XIV and "Lawrence" styles. It might more reasonably be found on a work from the first half of the 19th century. At the same time we can acknowledge this and the Louis XV style as being constants in the decorative frame idiom. The association between the frame and the painting is not clear, the frame might be a later reframing, however the activities of W. & G. Dean as frame makers might be contained to only a few years around the date of the painting which gives some credibility to it being the first framing of the painting.
Framemaker: W. & G. Dean
Melbourne
Date: (1890)
Materials: The frame is built on a simple wooden profile which has been mitred together. It carries embellishments to the corners and centres made from composition. The slightly convex frieze section carries a strap work pattern in composition. The frame does not have a slip and appears to be simply based on a solid wooden section without a recessed rebate.
Condition: The frame has been completely resurfaced and has lost any sense of the original finish. It would presumably have carried a surface of both burnished and matte gilding.
Dimensions: 61.5 x 53.5 x 5.0 cm; sight 46.0 x 38.0 cm