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This portrait of the artist’s sister depicts the sitter gazing downward in a calm, contemplative manner. Joan was the eldest of the five Tomlin siblings and worked as a nurse in the Voluntary Aid Detachment Unit during the First World War. Tomlin rendered his sister with subtly angular features, following a restrained modernist style in line with the more traditional tastes of the commissioner - in this case his father. Tomlin, however, infuriated his father when he spent the entirety of his payment on the marble base on which the bust currently sits.
This portrait of the artist’s sister depicts the sitter gazing downward in a calm, contemplative manner. Joan was the eldest of the five Tomlin siblings and worked as a nurse in the Voluntary Aid Detachment Unit during the First World War. Tomlin rendered his sister with subtly angular features, following a restrained modernist style in line with the more traditional tastes of the commissioner - in this case his father. Tomlin, however, infuriated his father when he spent the entirety of his payment on the marble base on which the bust currently sits.
