Sir Matthew Smith

Sir Jacob Epstein, by 1929

Leicester Galleries, London, where acquired by Mr Dudley Wallis in January 1939

Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd, London, from where acquired by Sir Antony and Lady Hornby in circa late 1950s and thence by descent to the present owners

London, Leicester Galleries, A Retrospective Exhibition of Works by Matthew Smith. The Collection of Jacob Epstein, January 1939, no. 7 (as Roses Outdoors)

London, Tate Gallery, Matthew Smith: Paintings from 1909-1952, 3 September - 18 October 1953, no. 33 (as Roses)

London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Matthew Smith 1879 - 1959, 1952, no. 21 (as Roses) (lent by Mrs Thelma Cazalet-Keir)

Bradford, Cartwright Hall, Jubilee Exhibition, 1954, no. 351

London, Royal Academy, A Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Matthew Smith C.B.E. 1879-1959, 1960, no. 102 (lent by Sir Antony Hornby)

London, Rowland, Browse & Delbanco, Matthew Smith - A Loan Exhibition, 27 April - 27 May 1979, no. 23 (as Roses Outdoors)

John Rothenstein, British Art Since 1900, London, Phaidon Press, 1962, illustrated p. 20

John Gledhill, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings of Matthew Smith, Farnham, Lund Humphries, 2009, no. 220, illustrated p. 120

During the mid 20th century, Sir Antony (1904 – 1987) and Lady Hornby (1910-1971) put together one of the foremost collections of Modern Art in Britain including works by European artists such as Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, Henri Matisse and Balthus alongside pictures by their British contemporaries including Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Christopher Wood, Stanley Spencer and L.S. Lowry. Sir Antony had been a senior partner at Cazenove and was President of Savoy Hotels Ltd. He developed a particular passion for the art of the avant-garde and his grandchildren fondly remember his apartment at Claridges where he lived for the last two decades of his life surrounded by masterworks of modern art. He had presented Renoir’s A Bather to the National Gallery, London, in 1961 and amongst other bequests, he left Braque’s Glass on a Table (1909-10) to the Tate Collection.