Helen Allingham, R.W.S. (1848-1926)
Helen Allingham, R.W.S. (1848-1926)

In a Spring Copse: 'Here the white-rayed anemone is born'

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Helen Allingham, R.W.S. (1848-1926)
In a Spring Copse: 'Here the white-rayed anemone is born'
signed 'H Allingham' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, with scratching out
9¼ x 6½ in. (23.5 x 16.5 cm.)
Provenance
Miss Gask, purchased from the Royal Watercolour Society, 1911.
with Michael Bryan, London.
Exhibited
London, Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, Winter Exhibition, 1911, no. 376.

Lot Essay

It is probable that this watercolour was taken near Brook, Witley, in Surrey, where the Allinghams had a house. Even after her subsequent return to London she returned to paint here each April and May.

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