item details
NameLittle Nell
ProductionGrace Joel; artist; circa 1895; Dunedin
Classificationpaintings
Materialsoil paint, canvas
Materials Summaryoil on canvas
DimensionsImage: 500mm (width), 655mm (height)
Registration Number2010-0009-1
Credit linePurchased 2010 with Ellen Eames Estate funds
Overview
Little Nell poses a young girl as the virtuous but doomed heroine of Charles Dickens’ novel The Old Curiosity Shop. Grace Joel painted several portraits of girls and young women around this time, influenced by her studies with Girolamo Nerli and her friendship with Frances Hodgkins.