HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)
HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)
HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)
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HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)

The Church and Chapel, Going Home on Sunday Evening

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HELEN BRADLEY (1900-1979)
The Church and Chapel, Going Home on Sunday Evening
signed with a fly (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated 'The Church and Chapel going home on Sunday Evening/this was a special Sunday - We were all going to Alice/Ann's new home to eat a piece of her wedding cake and/wish her happiness for only the day before she had/become the wife of widower Jim Wilson. Walking/along in the picture is - firstly Uncle John, Aunt Annie/& cousin Phyllis, next is Alice Ann, in her new blue coat &/hat. her new husband and his four little boys. Behind/is Grandfather & Grandmother, next father & mother, George/& I (and the dogs, Gyp & Barney) then Aunt Mary (in a/fashionable sailor hat) & Aunt Frances. Miss Carter (who/wore Pink) was walking with them when she heard/Mr Taylor (the Bank Manager & also widower) hurrying along/and asks him to accompany them to Alice Ann's./and the year was 1906,/Helen Layfield Bradley 1967.' (on the artist's label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas-board
14 x 21 in. (35.6 x 53.3 cm.)
Painted in 1967.
Provenance
with W.H. Patterson, London, where purchased by the present owner.
Exhibited
Preston, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Helen Bradley: Paintings of a Victorian Childhood, 1996, no. 17, as ‘Church + Chapel, Sunday’.

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