LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

27.56 in. (70.00 cm.) (height) by 60.04 in. (152.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'G. CLAUSEN./ 1883', l.l.

Exhibited:

London, Royal Institute of Painters in Oil Colours, 1883, no. 161; London, New English Art Club, Retrospective Exhibition, 1925, no. 289

Literature:

The Academy, 22 December 1883, p. 421-2; The Athenaeum, 22 December 1883, p. 821; The Magazine of Art, vol vii, 1884, p. 162; The Saturday Review, 22 December 1883, p. 798; Anon, 'The Collection of Sharpley Bainbridge Esq. JP, Lincoln', The Art Journal, 1898, p. 228; JM Gibbon, 'Painters of the Light, An Interview with George Clausen ARA', Black and White, 8 July 1905, p. 42; Anon, 'New English Art Club - A Retrospective Exhibition', The Times, 3 January 1925, p. 8; Kenneth McConkey, Sir George Clausen, RA, 1852-1944, 1980, exhibition catalog, Bradford and Tyne and Wear Museums, p. 29, repr. 30; Kenneth McConkey, 'Figures in a Field: Sir George Clausen's Winter Work', in Sotheby's Art at Auction, 1982-3, 1983, p. xx; Kenneth McConkey, 'Rustic Naturlaism in Britain', in GP Weisberg ed., The European Tradition, 1982, p. 222; Jeanne Sheehy, Walter Osborne, 1984, exhibition catalog, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, p. 166; Kenneth McConkey, The New English, A History of the New English Art Club, 2006, p. 28, repr. 154; Kenneth McConkey, 'Un petit cercle de thuriféraires: Bastien-Lepage et la Grande Bretagne', in 48/14, La revue du Musée d'Orsay, no. 24, Printemps 2007, repr. p. 30

Provenance:

Sharpley Bainbridge Esq. of Hatfield House, London, his sale Christie's, 10 February 1922, lot 107 to 'Jackson'; GB Blair Esq. by 1925; Miss E. M. Challoner, until 1976, her sale Sotheby's, 9 March 1976, lot 52; Professor Philip Rieff, Philadelphia, by whom loaned to the Philadelphia Museum of Art