David Wilkie Wynfield

London, Royal Academy, 1863, no. 489 (with the following text: And at the closing of the day/she loosed the chain, and down she lay,/The broad stream bore her far away.)

Lined. The surface is fresh and the colors are vibrant. There is minor surface dirt and dust. Under UV: a heavy varnish fluoresces green unevenly across the picture surface. There are some strokes of inpainting to the trees on the right hand side and in the water above the two birds.
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Wynfield studied with J.M. Leigh and lived in St. John's Wood, London, where he founded the St. John's Wood Clique. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1859 and 1887, displaying pictures inspired by sixteenth and seventeenth century British history. Wynfield was also an important Victorian photographer, and is considered a pioneer in this field.