Property from the Collection of the late Cyril and Shirley Fry
John Middleton
Deer in a forest glade
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Property from the Collection of the late Cyril and Shirley Fry
John Middleton
Norwich 1827 - 1856
Deer in a forest glade
Watercolour, heightened with white;
inscribed on an old, typed label: In Hainault Forest Aug. 1851
245 by 339 mm
London, Bankside Gallery, John Middleton & The Norwich School, 1982, no. 85
According to an old label, Middleton painted this work in 1851 in Hainault Forest. Hainault lies to the north-east of London and is part of the ancient Forest of Essex. The 1850s was a time of great change for the forest, for in 1851, parliament passed a law allowing for large-scale deforestation of the area and the culling of the herds of deer. Middleton’s watercolour, which is painted in his typical fresh and free technique, would seem therefore to capture a world threatened by the activities of man.