Henry James Pidding (1797-1864)

Naval Intelligence; Greenwich Pensioners reading a copy of The Times

細節

Henry James Pidding (1797-1864)
Naval Intelligence; Greenwich Pensioners reading a copy of The Times
signed and dated 'HJPidding/1845' (lower right) and signed and inscribed 'Naval Intelligence H. J. Pidding' (on an old label attached to the stretcher)
oil on unlined canvas
45 x 34 in. (111.8 x 86.3 cm.)
in a contemporary gilt composition frame

來源

Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, Gaddesdon Hoo, Hertfordshire, until circa 1950.

展覽

London, British Institution, 1855, no. 22.

拍品專文

Henry James Pidding was best known by his contemporaries as a painter of humorous subjects taken from domestic life. He exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy between 1818 and 1855 and also at the British Institution. Greenwich Pensioners also seem to have provided the artist with a particularly popular theme; the Art Journal in its obituary for Pidding made particular mention of another painting by the artist featuring Greenwich pensioners, entitled The Blue Nile, then owned by the Duke of Bedford, as 'among the best of Mr. Pidding's works' (The Art Journal, 1864, p. 243).