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Who is Philip Wilson Steer?

1. Cameo
2. Irish Storyteller

Cameo

George Moore head and shoulders in profile turned to his right, within a dark oval surrounded by a gold plane.

A framed copy of this picture is in the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, New York Public Library, USA. Owned by the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

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Irish Storyteller

George Moore half-length seated on a chair, his left arm bent at the elbow and resting on a surface.

This hitherto unattributed portrait is almost certainly the painting mentioned to D.S. MacColl by Steer’s friend Vernon Wethered (see MacColl’s Life Work and Setting of Philip Wilson Steer, 1945, p. 66). Wethered recalled that a Steer portrait of Moore had been published without attribution as the frontispiece of an unnamed book by Moore. Just two unattributed frontispieces were published in Moore’s canon: the first was attributed to William Rothenstein (and decades later to Henry Tonks); this is the second.

Published in George Moore, The Untilled Field & The Lake, Carra Edition (1923) in sepia tone.