''The White Glove'' is a

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by Australian artist

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. The painting depicts Miss Gladys Neville Collins, the daughter of J.T. Collins, lawyer, Victorian State Parliamentary draughtsman, and trustee of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria. Lambert posed the subject in a manner suggestive of

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''. The painting also suggests Lambert was familiar with

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's 1905 work '' Portrait of Ena Wertheimer: a vele gonfie''. Lambert's lively work was significantly different from the "prevalent brown tonalist portraiture" in vogue with other Australian portrait painters at the time. In a letter to his wife Amy, Lambert described the painting as a "wild dashing portrait". The painting was acquired for 600

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s by the

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in 1922, at the time the highest price paid by a public gallery for a portrait by an Australian artist. The work remains part of its collection.

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''The White Glove''
- Art Gallery of New South Wales {{DEFAULTSORT:White Glove Paintings by George Washington Lambert 1921 paintings Portraits by Australian artists 20th-century portraits Collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales

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