Black and White Chalk Portrait Study of Mrs Leslie Stephen (Head and Shoulders)

drawing height: 45.4 cm
drawing width: 37.3 cm
mount height: 56.4 cm
mount width: 41.1 cm
frame height: 77.7 cm
frame width: 62.7 cm

Julia Prinsep Jackson (1846-1895) became the wife of Leslie Stephen (Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and knighted in 1902) in 1878; both had been married before, their spouses having died. To the three children she had with Herbert Duckworth would be added four more--two sons and two daughters, Vanessa (the painter Vanessa Bell) and Adeline Virginia, better known in later life as Virginia Woolf.