Walter Frederick Osborne, R.H.A. (1859-1903)

Two small boys in a field of corn

Details

Walter Frederick Osborne, R.H.A. (1859-1903)
Two small boys in a field of corn
signed indistinctly 'Walter Osborne' (lower right)
oil on board
6 x 9½ in. (15 x 24 cm.)
Painted circa 1890

Provenance

Violet Stockley, the artist's niece, from whom purchased by the present owner.

Literature

J. Sheehy, Walter Osborne, Cork, 1974, no. 250.

Lot Essay

Jeanne Sheehy (op. cit., p. 126) describes the present work as 'Two small boys in a field of corn. Downs beyond'. She also records that 'his elder brother Charles was, for a time, curate with Father Dolling in the Portsmouth Dock area, which drew him to neighbouring Romsey, Winchester and the Hampshire Downs' (ibid., p. 23).

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