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Back of Standing Female Nude

Artist: Hope, Robert, RSA · 1868-1936

Back of Standing Female Nude

Hope was a student in the RSA Life School every year from 1892-3 to 1897-8 inc. In 1893 he was awarded The Stuart Prize.; in 1895 the Extra prize for…

Hope was a student in the RSA Life School every year from 1892-3 to 1897-8 inc.
In 1893 he was awarded The Stuart Prize.; in 1895 the Extra prize for Painting [probably for the present work] and in 1896 the Chalmers-Jervise Prize for the best Drawing from the Life (first equal with S J Peploe) and The Maclaine-Watters Medal; The Visitors to the RSA Life School during his time were; Robert McGregor; David W Stevenson; William Hole and Robert Alexander (1892-3); Robert McGregor; David W Stevenson; William Hole and Robert Alexander (1893-4); J Lawton Wingate; T Austen Brown; C Martin Hardie and W D McKay (1894-5) and C Martin Hardie; W D McKay; Otto Leyde and J Campbell Noble (1895-6); W D McKay; G Ogilvy Reid; Alexander I Roche and J Campbell Noble (1896-7) and G Ogilvy Reid; Alexander I Roche; W Grant Stevenson and J Campbell Noble (1897-8).

Appears to have been executed in the same session, with the same model as depicted in RSA 2017.082