Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925)

The Blackdown hills, Somerset

Details

Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925)
The Blackdown hills, Somerset
signed 'Robert Bevan' (lower left)
oil on canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)
Painted circa 1912-15

Provenance

Harold Gilman.
The late Lady Henry Bentinck; her Sale by Order of the Executors, Christie's London, 19 April 1940, lot 117 (7gns. to Dunnell).
H. G. Dunnell; his Sale, Christie's London, 9 July 1943, lot 29 (5gns. to Walley).

Lot Essay

Bevan and his wife, Stanislawa de Karlowska, spent the summers of 1912, 1913 and 1915 as the guests of Harold B. Harrison at Applehayes, Clayhidon, in the Blackdown hills, on the Devon-Somerset border. Bevan painted a series of extensive landscapes from Applehayes, and nearby Bolham Valley, where he rented a cottage between 1916 and 1919
(see R. Bevan, Robert Bevan 1865-1925 A Memoir by his son, London, 1965, p. 26).

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