Cornfield

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Lionel Percy Smythe, R.A., R.W.S (1839-1918)
Cornfield
signed 'L Smythe' (lower right) and inscribed '"Cornfield" Lionel. J. Smythe. A.R.A. Chateau d'Honvault. par Wimereux. Pas de Calais.' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard).
watercolour, with scratching out
9½ x 13½ in. (24.3 x 34.3 cm.)

Provenance

W.W. Hayworth, 91 Cazenove Road, Stoke Newington (+); Christie's, London, 8 December 1916, lot 67, 7 gns to Russell-Cotes.
with Abbott and Holder, London, 1981.

Exhibited

Possibly London, Royal Watercolour Society, October 1921, no. 272.

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Lot Essay

The drawing may be a study for The Field of the Cloth of Gold: 'Twixt Calais and Guines (private collection), a large and ambitious work that Smythe exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours in 1883. For an illustration and discussion of the picture's significance, see Victorian Landscape Watercolours, exh. Yale, Cleveland and Birmingham, 1992-3, cat. p. 166.

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