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Lot Essay
John Brakewell (Brake) Baldwin, 1885-1915 enrolled at the Heatherley School of Fine Art aged 21. Distinguished alumni of Heatherleys also included Rosetti, Poynter, and Burne-Jones amongst others.
In 1911 he married fellow student Edith Wilson, moving to Kensington and building a studio in the garden at 6 Phillimore Terrace. This move precipitated Baldwin's most productive years of artistic output - between 1912 and 1914 he exhibited widely alongside Orpen, Lavery and Sargent at the Royal Institute of Painters and alongside Philpot, Augustus John and Sickert at the National Portrait Society and the Royal Academy.
The bold painterly style exhibited in the present work and the subtle variations of light within a dark palette align Baldwin with the best of his contemporaries.
The present picture exudes a romanticism associated with London's greatest lost houses. Home to the Dukes of Devonshire throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, the extraordinary William Kent commission conceived in the Palladian style, Devonshire House on Piccadilly, was demolished in 1924.
In 1911 he married fellow student Edith Wilson, moving to Kensington and building a studio in the garden at 6 Phillimore Terrace. This move precipitated Baldwin's most productive years of artistic output - between 1912 and 1914 he exhibited widely alongside Orpen, Lavery and Sargent at the Royal Institute of Painters and alongside Philpot, Augustus John and Sickert at the National Portrait Society and the Royal Academy.
The bold painterly style exhibited in the present work and the subtle variations of light within a dark palette align Baldwin with the best of his contemporaries.
The present picture exudes a romanticism associated with London's greatest lost houses. Home to the Dukes of Devonshire throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, the extraordinary William Kent commission conceived in the Palladian style, Devonshire House on Piccadilly, was demolished in 1924.