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He entered the Royal Academy schools aged fifteen and in 1863 won a gold medal for the religious painting <i>Abraham about to Sacrifice Isaac</i>.  He had a reputation for painting scenes depicting impending tragedy or death and often chose his subjects from observation of modern English life.  He was a successful portraitist, painting many notable figures of his day, but very rarely painted women.  This particular portrait is of Ellen Sarah Gibbs, later Mrs Edgar Holl.","physicalDescription":"Three-quarter view portrait of a young girl with long blonde hair seated in a chair.  The girl holds an ?apple in her right hand and looks toward the left edge of the canvas.\r\n\r\nOn the back is an over-lifesize study (in grey and brown) of a hand with bent fingers.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Holl, Frank (RA)","id":"A17571"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"oil paint","id":"AAT15050"},{"text":"millboard","id":"AAT14233"}],"techniques":[{"text":"oil painting","id":"AAT178684"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Oil on millboard","categories":[{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"},{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006BH7817"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"A","id":"THES304299"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"oil paintings","id":"AAT33799"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1863","earliest":"1863-01-01","latest":"1863-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by Mrs C. 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M. Baker through the National Art Collections Fund\n\nHistorical significance: Frank Holl (1845-1888) was born in London, the son of the engraver Francis Holl. He was accepted at the Royal Academy Schools at the age of 15, and in 1863 he won a gold medal for a religious painting. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1864 until his death. Holl specialised in a melancholy, even morbid strain of genre painting, and in the 1870s won popular success with paintings on the themes of social problems, illness and mortality. \r\n\r\nIn the late 1870s Holl became a successful and prolific portrait painter. This early exercise in the genre is a portrait of the artist's future sister-in-law. It was given to the V&A in 1958 by Mrs C.M. Baker through the Art Fund, along with Holl's painting of his younger brother when a small boy (P.1-1958). Also included in the gift was an oil sketch of the head of a Welsh fishergirl (P.3-1958). 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