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Who is William Rothenstein?

1. The Art Critic
2. C’est moi
3. Starry Eyed

I believe that a forth portrait drawing of George Moore named Always Yours, attributed by its owner to Henry Tonks, is actually by William Rothenstein to whom it was attributed at the time of publication in 1901. Like The Art Critic it is a half-length portrait used as a frontispiece.

The Art Critic

Signed: W.R. 96. Half length. George Moore half-length, figure and dress similar to a photograph by William Page and an etching by William Strang.

This portrait was apparently commissioned by the publisher Walter Scott for Moore’s Modern Painting, second edition. Manet’s pastel Le Noyé Repeché was used instead.

Published in John Rothenstein, The Portrait Drawings of William Rothenstein 1889-1925 (1926), plate XIV, where it is given different dimensions. A detail of the portrait was published in George Moore, Modern Painting, Carra edition (1923) as a frontispiece.

Owned by the National Gallery of Ireland.

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C’est moi

Captioned C’est moi Mooooorrrh. George Moore three-quarter length. The drawing was made during an evening at the home of Arnold Dolmetsch, when the artist felt Moore was unpleasantly verbose. See Mabel Dolmetsch, Personal Recollections of Arnold Dolmetsch (1957).

Owned by the Jeanne-Marie Dolmetsch Collection of Cambridge University Library, England.

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Starry Eyed

George Moore full-length, head half-turned to his right, seated on the ground with legs extended outward and toes pointed upward, hands folded over his torso. A star in each eye.

The picture was drawn, with another of Émile Zola, on a holograph letter from Moore to the artist.

Published in the Book Buyer (New York: Volume 23, November 1901). Owned by Harvard University, Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.