Edward F. Green

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

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Description

Edward F. Green
Portrait of a Young Woman in Greek Dress
signed and dated Patras 1835 right centre; signed and inscribed on the stretcher
oil on canvas
75.5 by 61cm., 29¾ by 24in.

Literature

Fani-Maria Tsigakou, The Rediscovery of Greece: Travellers and Painters of the Romantic Era, London, 1981, p. 194, catalogued, p. 41, discussed, plate V, illustrated

Catalogue Note

By the mid-Nineteenth Century, Greek costumes, embroideries and textiles had become popular subjects with European artists. Edward F. Green exhibited a series of works depicting Greek subjects at the British Institution and the Society of British Artists in 1834 and 1835, which would have captured the attention of a public fascinated and moved by the drama of the Greek struggle for independence and the proclamation of a new Greek kingdom in 1833.