This painting was purchased by Lever with the intention of using it to advertise the benefits of Sunlight Soap. He was attracted to the clean, pure representation of the graceful middle-class women washing elegant blue china. An advertising poster entitled 'Home Bright - Hearts Light' reproduced the painting and featured a packet of Sunlight Soap on the table.

Louise Jopling was one of the leading female artists of the late Victorian period, and moved in a rarefied social circle which included John Everett Millais, James McNeill Whistler and Oscar WIlde, as well as Ellen Terry and Kate Perugini. She was also a social reformer, supporting the professional education of other women artists and campagining for female suffrage. The domestic activities of women were a popular subject  with female artists in the late 19th century.

Blue and White | National Museums Liverpool

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This painting was purchased by Lever with the intention of using it to advertise the benefits of Sunlight Soap. He was attracted to the clean, pure representation of the graceful middle-class women washing elegant blue china. An advertising poster entitled 'Home Bright - Hearts Light' reproduced the painting and featured a packet of Sunlight Soap on the table. Louise Jopling was one of the leading female artists of the late Victorian period, and moved in a rarefied social circle which included John Everett Millais, James McNeill Whistler and Oscar WIlde, as well as Ellen Terry and Kate Perugini. She was also a social reformer, supporting the professional education of other women artists and campagining for female suffrage. The domestic activities of women were a popular subject with female artists in the late 19th century.

Blue and White

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