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19 century collection

Introduction
'The Death of Nelson'
'Linlithgow Palace'
'The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel'
'The Black Boy'
'Isabella'
'Napoleon crossing the Alps'
'Faithful unto death'
'The Tinted Venus'
'The Stonebreaker'
'John and Georgiana Naylor'
'The Hunted Slaves'
'The Murder'
'Elaine'
'Dante's Dream'
'Bust of Henry Wordsworth Longfellow'
'Leonora di Mantua'
'Portrait of Mrs Catherine Smith Gill'
'Elijah in the Wilderness'
'Athlete struggling with a python'
'And when did you last see your father?'
'One of the Family'
'A Street in Brittany'
'Friday'
'Dante and Beatrice'
'The Mower'
'Fantine'
'Samson'
'A summer night'
'The Promise'
'The funeral of Shelley'
'Woman ironing'
'Break-up of the ice on the Seine, near Bennecourt'
'Perseus and Andromeda'
'The punishment of lust'
'The sense of sight'
'Ophelia'
'The Fairy Tale'
'Old Man's Treasure'
'The Eve of St Agnes'
'Deal'
'Puck'
'Self-Portrait'
A study of 'Arthur Madox Brown'
'Waiting'
A study of 'Arthur Madox Brown, age nine months'
A study of 'Catherine Madox Brown'
A study of 'Lucy Madox Brown'
A study of 'Oliver Madox Brown'
'A Coat of Many Colours'
'Millie Smith'
Study of Emma and Catherine for 'Pretty Baa Lambs'

'The Promise' by Henry Tuke, 1888

An adolescent girl and boy are looking at each other and holding hands beneath a flowering blossom tree. Only the girl's profile is revealed while we can see all of the boy's facial features.

Oil on canvas, 56.8 x 67.5cm

Accession number WAG 675