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While a student at the Royal Academy School in London Dicksee joined the Langham Sketching Club. From time to time the club met to sketch on certain designated subjects; one evening the subject was 'Music'. Pleased with his sketch, Dicksee decided render it as an oil painting. In 1877, under the title Harmony, it became his first picture exhibited at a Royal Academy exhibition. The painting (hung in a place of honor opposite Sir John Millais' Yeoman of the Guard) was a tremendous success, and provided a real boost to the career of the young artist, who was only 24 years old. Harmony was selected for purchase as part of the prestigious Chantry Bequest, and as such became one of the first works acquired by the Tate Britain, where it now resides.

The medieval setting and costumes in this picture reflect Dicksee's interest in the Pre-Raphaelites. His design for this picture originated in a sketching exercise at the Langham Sketching Club. The theme chosen for illustration by members of the club had been 'Music'.

Music had been traditionally associated with the divine, but in the late nineteenth century aesthetes such as the writer Walter Pater focused on its abstract qualities. Immortal ideas are perhaps alluded to in the figure of the girl, who adopts the rapt expression seen in images of Saint Cecilia, patron saint of music.




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