HERBERT THOMAS DICKSEE | STUDY FOR THE PRIMROSE GATHERERS
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HERBERT THOMAS DICKSEE
1862 - 1942
STUDY FOR THE PRIMROSE GATHERERS
pen, ink and wash with bodycolour
33 by 19cm., 13 by 7.75 in.
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Bequeathed to the artist's daughter Dorothy Service and thence to her son Rev. David Thomas Michael Service;
J. S. Maas & Co., London;
William E. Fischelis, Jr.
The Primrose Gatherers was an etching published by Frost and Reed in 1908 and depicts two girls picking flowers on a hillside with sheep. It is likely that this study depicts Gladys Cooper who was Dicksee's regular model at that time, before she became a famous actress.