The White Glove

The White Glove is a 1921 portrait painting by Australian artist George Washington Lambert.

Collins, lawyer, Victorian State Parliamentary draughtsman, and trustee of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria.

[1] Lambert posed the subject in a manner suggestive of Joshua Reynolds Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse.

The painting also suggests Lambert was familiar with John Singer Sargent's 1905 work Portrait of Ena Wertheimer: a vele gonfie.

[1] Miss Collins’s tilted head, her half-open mouth, half-closed eyes, and almost-bare right arm suggest an individual sensuality, but they also indicate a form of codified (sexual) behaviour.Lambert's lively work was significantly different from the "prevalent brown tonalist portraiture" in vogue with other Australian portrait painters at the time.