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St Cecilia is the patron saint of music. Strudwick shows her looking not up to heaven but down ‘because I think earth’s sweetest music is not an echo of heaven’s music, but something quite different…I have made my angel sad-faced because there’s always a sadness in our mortal songs.’ The painting was commissioned by George Holt in 1895.
This painting is one of the images in a new range of Christmas cards for 2008 which are now available to purchase. All proceeds support National Museums Liverpool.
Medium and Support: Oil on panel
Date:1895 - 1896
Accession No: WAG 306