Sketch for Nurse and Baby (Double sided studies of a baby) by Beatrice Huntington (1889-1988) captures in light pencil sketchings three separate views of a baby. The most detailed is the head, with the baby's face turned away and the eyes shut, with Huntington capturing the light shadows around the crown of the head, in the hair, and of the ear with sweeps of pencil lines. Another part is of a baby's hand, with controlled lines depicting the roundness of the baby's fingers. In the top left, a softer image captured the shading of a baby's ear and suggestions of a brow and eye area. 

These sketches were in preparation of Huntington's piece titled Nurse and Baby, 1915 within the Fleming Collection. They show Huntington's skillset in portraiture and dedication to studying multiple viewpoints of her subjects in preparation for a piece. 

Beatrice Huntington, 1889-1988

Beatrice Huntington was a celebrated Scottish protrait painter in the 1920s and 1930s. She was born in St Andrews and trained in Paris, Munich and London. Huntington was also a celebrated cellist, having studied the cello in Leipzig. She moved to Dundee after WWI to study under the painter William Macdonald whom she later married in 1925. The two artists moved to a flat on Hanover Street, Edinburgh in 1929, spending the rest of their lives living their whilst travelling extensively throughout Europe.