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Lot Essay
This delightful picture shares the same subject as the artist’s Diploma work, Fishing, of two girls on a river bank, submitted to the Royal Academy in 1932 when de Glehn became a full Academician. (He was later to be considered for the Presidency of the Royal Academy, but this did not transpire and went instead to the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, and thence to Munnings). The artist had been painting such pictures for nearly twenty years by this point, ever since he and his wife Jane Emmet accompanied Sargent on his painting tours. One such picture, Jane Emmet de Glehn, by a stream, Val d’Aosta, was sold by Christie’s London 15 December 2011, lot 35 (£157, 250).
His pictures were thought by contemporary critics to capture the spirit of the 18th Century, as expressed by Watteau especially. Writing in 1912, T.M. Wood described his art as 'a delightful sort of pantheism … people among the trees, be-smattered with sunlight, moving there even in all their modern costume as if they belonged to the scenes, dryads, and children of Nature in the spirt of their love for her and their pleasure in the sun'. (T. Martin Wood, 'The Paintings of Wilfred G von Glehn, ‘The Studio’, vol. LVI, 1912, p. 9.)
His pictures were thought by contemporary critics to capture the spirit of the 18th Century, as expressed by Watteau especially. Writing in 1912, T.M. Wood described his art as 'a delightful sort of pantheism … people among the trees, be-smattered with sunlight, moving there even in all their modern costume as if they belonged to the scenes, dryads, and children of Nature in the spirt of their love for her and their pleasure in the sun'. (T. Martin Wood, 'The Paintings of Wilfred G von Glehn, ‘The Studio’, vol. LVI, 1912, p. 9.)