The Jubilee Hat

Details

Frank Wright Bourdillon (1851-1924)
The Jubilee Hat
signed and dated 'F.BOURDILLON.1887' (lower right)
oil on canvas
36½ x 27½ in. (92.7 x 69.7 cm.)

Provenance

Nigel Holman Collection.

Literature

Connoisseur, 'A Cornish Colony', November 1979, p. 161.
C. Fox et al., Exhibition catalogue, Painting in Newlyn 1880-1930, London, Barbican Art Gallery, 1985, p. 61, illustrated.
T. Cross, The Shining Sands, Artists in Newlyn and St Ives 1880-1930, Cambridge, 1994, p. 72, illustrated.

Exhibited

Penzance, Art Museum, 1887.
Truro, The Royal Institute of Cornwall, Painting in Cornwall 1880-1938, 1978, no. 26.
Newlyn, Art Gallery, Artists of the Newlyn School 1880-1930, 1979, no. 106: this exhibition toured to Plymouth, City Art Gallery and Bristol, Museum and Art Gallery.
London, Barbican Art Gallery, Painting in Newlyn 1880-1930, July-September 1985, no. 62.

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Lot Essay

The subject matter of the present work depicts local Newlyn interest in Queen Victoria's golden jubilee celebrations. A mother and child sit comtemplating the creation of a decorated hat for the event. On the wall above them is pinned an image of Queen Victoria.

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