Morning Chores Black & White Rita Hayworth and Charlie Chaplin

Rita Hayworth and Charlie Chaplin

Despite her obvious wealth

fall out of the ownership of their sitter’s descendants

This painting was exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1915

If you’ve been with us on our gallery journey for the last two decades you’ll already know all about this wonderful Scottish painter printmaker

Morning Chores Black & White Rita Hayworth and Charlie ChaplinThis is a wonderful image, a hangover from the era of Victorian genre paintings but a very modern painting for 1889. More of a transitional style, it could easily have been painted in the early twentieth century. The pose of the model is very natural, seemingly unposed in fact. The unconscious way in which she goes about her chores is beguiling, and the light is masterly. Even more impressive that Rnquist painted this while still a student of twenty