, 2008. Fibreglass stone and airplane. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2011. Photo © Roman März](/images/content/menuSeeGallery.png)
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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Venetian Woman (Blackmail), c. 1903-1904
Walter Richard Sickert
Danish, British, 1860
- 1942
pastel on cream wove paper, mounted on cardboard
67.3 x 54.5 cm
Purchased 1955
National Gallery of Canada (no. 6389)
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The subject of this mysterious work, Mrs. Barrett, who also features in several other portraits, including two in oil, was Sickert's charwoman. Sickert used pastel with dynamic, broad strokes across the roughly textured board. The inadvertent blending of superimposed slashes of colour belies the presence of isolating layers of fixative. The parallel hatchings of colour in the face suggest the influence of Sickert's friend Degas.
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