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Lot Essay
After Leader left his birth county of Worcestershire in 1889 to take up residence at Burrows Cross in Surrey, nostalgia for his native landscape continued to be expressed on canvas until his death in 1923.
This river scene is, in part, derived from two earlier works: Kempsey on the Severn of 1883 and Sabrina's Stream, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1889, no. 654. Both paintings were engraved. While they depict Kempsey village and church on the banks of the river Severn below Worcester at the Pixham Ferry crossing, in this later smaller work Leader has replaced the village and church with a large ivy-clad manor farmhouse and outbuildings; and included the ferry itself.
We are grateful to Ruth Wood for her help in preparing this catalogue entry.
This river scene is, in part, derived from two earlier works: Kempsey on the Severn of 1883 and Sabrina's Stream, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1889, no. 654. Both paintings were engraved. While they depict Kempsey village and church on the banks of the river Severn below Worcester at the Pixham Ferry crossing, in this later smaller work Leader has replaced the village and church with a large ivy-clad manor farmhouse and outbuildings; and included the ferry itself.
We are grateful to Ruth Wood for her help in preparing this catalogue entry.