The Music Lesson

Details

Robert Thorburn Ross, R.S.A. (1816-1876)
The Music Lesson
signed and dated 'R T ROSS./RSA 1870' (lower left)
oil on canvas
35 1/8 x 45¼ in. (89.2 x 115.7 cm.)

Provenance

Robert Crossman, Cheswick, Northumberland; by descent to the present owner.

Literature

Art Journal, 1870, p. 97.

Exhibited

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, 1870, no. 662.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The Music Lesson is mentioned in passing by the critic of the Art Journal in 1870, after a full description and analysis of Asleep, Ross' diploma work that was in the same exhibition:

Mr. Ross has four other pictures, 'Preparing Bait,' 'Baiting the Line,' 'Dyeing the Net,' and 'The Music Lesson'; in all of which fisher-life, under various aspects, with its motley accompaniments of ropes, spars, casks, parti-coloured sales, baskets, nets, blue and red jackets, &c., is cleverly arranged to bring out the particular incidents of the sea-faring trade. This successful exposition of both land and water stories implies versatility in the handling of the brush very creditable to Mr. Ross.

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