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Tissot: Quiet

My name is Anne Stewart, I am Senior Curator of Art, and I am here to introduce the Ulster

Museum’s important new acquisition: A painting entitled ‘Quiet’ by the famous nineteenth

Century French artist James or Jacques Tissot.

The painting is set in a sun-lit garden and the very elegantly dressed young woman who

looks up at us from her book with an air of self-confidence and independence is Tissot’s

muse, Kathleen Newton. Seated with her niece in the garden of Tissot’s house in St. John’s

Wood in London, Kathleen Newton engages us directly with her gaze.

Born in India, of Irish parents, Kathleen’s story involves an arranged marriage, seduction,

single motherhood and her subse...

Oil on Canvas

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Ulster Museum
Permanent collection

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