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A female figure is standing next to the girl, reaching forward and pinching the top of the shoe. 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'No One Knows Where the Shoe Pinches but He Who Wears It' was shown there in 1867. Farmer lived at Portchester House, Portchester, Hampshire, with his mother and two sisters.  \r\n\r\nA mistake in Graves' published dictionaries of Royal Academy and British Institution exhibitors, where Alexander Farmer is referred to as 'Mrs A. Farmer', has led to ongoing confusion over the artist's sex. The problem was compounded when two paintings by Farmer, entitled 'Lost' and 'Found' (both 1861), included in an exhibition entitled <u>The Victorian Scene</u> at M. Newman's Gallery, Duke Street, London in 1962, were incorrectly catalogued as by Alexandra Farmer. \r\n\r\nHowever, in each of the relevant RA exhibition catalogues between 1855 to 1867, during the artist's working lifetime, the reference is to 'A. Farmer', not 'Mrs. A. Farmer'. It is likely that Mrs Alexander Farmer never existed, and that confusion between Alexander and his sister Emily, a professional watercolourist and miniature painter, resulted in the creation of a fictional 'Mrs Farmer' when the two were conflated.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Oil Painting, 'No One Knows Where the Shoe Pinches but Him Who Wears It', Alexander Farmer, 1867","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Susan Owens,  'Alexander Farmer (1825-69): A Male Artist Rediscovered', <u>British Art Journal</u>, Volume X no. 2, Winter 2009, p.43"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["542-1905"],"accessionNumberNum":"542","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1905,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-06-03","recordCreationDate":"2006-06-26","availableToBook":true}}