The white farm

Details

Harold Stewart Rathbone (1858-1929)
The white farm
signed with monogram and dated ''82' (lower right) and further inscribed 'No. 3 The White Farm H.S. Rathbone Greenbank Liverpool' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
8¾ x 13 in. (23.5 x 33 cm.)

Provenance

with The Maas Gallery, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 31 October 1989, lot 210.
David Dickson, London.

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Lot Essay

Rathbone was a Liverpool artist, designer, and poet. He founded the Della Robbia Pottery with the sculptor Conrad Dressler in Birkenhead, 1893 (see lots 158-160). He spearheaded the 1890-1 campaign to buy The Triumph of the Innocents by William Holman Hunt for the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, where his portrait by Hunt now hangs.

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