Teacher Gallery

The Dance Class, 1873-74 (oil on canvas)

XOS1127595 The Dance Class, 1873-74 (oil on canvas) by Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); 83.5x77.2 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: Class conducted by Jules Perrot, a famous ballet master. The imaginary scene is set in a rehearsal room in the old Paris OpA©ra,); French, out of copyright

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Francesco Matania

Chevalier Francesco Matania (1884-1957), operatic singer and professor of singing, pictured in The Tatler at the time of his return to London in 1920 (presumably he had remained in Italy during the war). The Tatler report that Matania, with considerable experience in opera had also made a special study of voice-training and vocal art and had opened a studio at the Wigmore Hall Studios in Marylebone where he gave singing lessons. The brother of the famous artist and magazine illustrator, Fortunino Matania, Francesco in later life would share his brother's work space, giving music lessons in the rooms above the artists studio at 104, Priory Road, Kilburn, London. Date: 1920

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Margaret Morris in a nocturne of Mendelssohn

Portrait of Margaret Morris (1891 - 1980), famous dancer and dance teacher. Margaret Morris movement dance combined exercise with dance, and freedom of expression and was a popular art form in the early twentieth century. She was a pupil of Raymond Duncan, the brother of Isadora Duncan and opened her own little theatre in Chelsea where she performed. Date: 1915

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