(i) NURSE AND CHILD; (ii) FEEDING HENS; (iii) ALICE WITH JOHN
(iii) signed and dedicated for John and Elizabeth affect. Albert lower left
pastel
(i) 20 x 22.3cm; 8 x 8 3/4in
41 x 43cm; 16 x 17in (framed)
(ii) 23 x 32cm; 9 x 12 1/2in
40.5 x 56cm; 16 x 22in (framed)
(iii) 34 x 23cm; 13 1/4 x 9in
52 x 39cm; 20 1/2 x 15 1/2in (mounted)
(3)

Provenance
(iii) John and Elizabeth Rothenstein, London (a gift from the artist)

Painted in the early 1900s, these three pastels all feature Rothenstein's eldest child John: (i) John with his nurse; (ii) almost certainly John feeding hens with his mother, Rothenstein's wife Alice and (iii) Alice giving John a piggyback.

Alice Rothenstein (1867-1957, née Knewstub) was the daughter of the artist John Knewstub and the pre-Raphaelite muse Emily Renshaw. She trained as an actress and married Rothenstein in 1899. Their first child John, born in 1901, went on to become Director of the Tate Gallery, and was knighted in 1952 for services to the arts. He and his mother feature in a number of notable paintings by Rothenstein, including the oil Mother and Child (Tate Britain) painted in 1903 when the Rothensteins were living on Church Row, Hampstead.