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Lot 198
  • 198

Samuel Palmer, R.W.S

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Samuel Palmer, R.W.S
  • The end of the day
  • Watercolour over pencil, heightened with bodycolour, scratching out and gum arabic
  • 191 by 418 mm

Provenance

Robert Hood Brechin, 1901;
sale, London, Christie’s, 11 April 1908, lot 240 (as part of the lot), bt. Bowden;
with Walker’s Gallery, London, 1958;
sale, London, Christie’s, 4 November 1975, lot 82  

Exhibited

Glasgow, International Exhibition, 1901

Literature

D.S. MacColl, Nineteenth Century Art, Glasgow 1902, p. 187, pl. 75
R. Lister, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Samuel Palmer, Cambridge 1988, p. 213, no. 689

Condition

Although, the colours in this work have faded a little with time, the sheet remains close to its original colour. There isAt the extreme edges of the sheet there is some minor staining and can be associated with previous mounting. The work is laid down onto its original backboard. For further information on this work, please contact Mark Griffith-Jones on mark.griffithjones@sothebys.com or 0207 293 5083.
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Catalogue Note

Raymond Lister dates this work circa 1880, very close to the end of Palmer’s life. From 1870 he had lived at Furze Hill, a gothic revival villa in Redhill, Surrey. It was there, according to L.R. Valpy (see lot 199) that ‘some of his most splendid pictures were produced.’ With its emphasis on pastoral beauty and human interaction with a rural landscape, this work contains many of the themes that transfixed Palmer throughout his life.