SIR EDWARD JOHN POYNTER, BT., P.R.A., R.W.S. | Study for At Low Tide

Sotheby's, London, 11 December 2007, lot 27 where purchased by Stan Battat

This is a study for the figure of the sea-nymph in Poynter's oil painting At Low Tide (private collection) which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1913 and printed in colours as a Pears soap advertisement in 1914. In the finished painting the nude nymph is seated on a rocky dais in a sea-cave listening to the sound of the waves echoed through a large shell she has found as the tide subsides. At Low Tide was in the collection of Viscount Leverhulme but sold by his executors in New York in 1925.