Lot Essay
The painting depicts a view of Abinger Mill Pond, Wotton Park.
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Edward Wilkins Waite was born into an artistic family in Leatherhead, Surrey, in 1854. He was the son of a Congregationalist minister who was an amateur watercolourist, and the grandson to the miniaturist William Watkin Waite. He was educated at Mansion House Grammar School, Leatherhead.
In 1874 Waite sailed to Canada where he worked as a lumberjack, taking up painting as a career on his return. He exhibited his first works at the Royal Academy in 1878. Waite married in 1891, settling in Abinger Hammer, near Dorking, and moving to Guildford in 1905. Our three paintings, which date from 1887 to c.1905, are all from the Abinger area, lots 176a and 176b being painted on the Estate of W.J. Evelyn at Wotton Park. Waite's work is represented in several public collections, including Bolton Art Gallery, Guildford House Gallery, Guildford, the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Northampton Central Museum and Art Gallery and the Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery.
Edward Wilkins Waite (1854-1924)
Details
Edward Wilkins Waite (1854-1924)
A Silent Pool: Autumn
signed and dated 'E.W. Waite/1887'; oil on canvas
30 x 44in. (76 x 112cm.)
A Silent Pool: Autumn
signed and dated 'E.W. Waite/1887'; oil on canvas
30 x 44in. (76 x 112cm.)
Provenance
Purchased by Charles Thomas at the Royal Society of British Artists exhibition and presented by him to the City of Bristol Museum & Art Gallery in 1908. The painting was sold to the present owner in 1956.
Exhibited
London, Royal Society of British Artists, 1888, no.307
Guildford, Guildford House, Edward Wilkins Waite, RBA (1854-1924), 1986, no.4
Guildford, Guildford House, Edward Wilkins Waite, RBA (1854-1924), 1986, no.4