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Valentine Bartholomew (1799-1879)
Hollyhocks
pencil and watercolour heightened with white
28½ x 21in. (725 x 530mm).
[With:]
The Gardener's Shed
signed and dated 1839 on the stretcher
pencil and watercolour heightened with white
25½ x 21in. (650 x 535mm).
A fine pair of flower paintings, both framed and glazed, by the 'Flower Painter in Ordinary' to Queen Victoria. The flowers depicted in the first are all hollyhocks: a single pink, and a yellow and deep purple double-flowered variety. The second is more wide-ranging in its subject matter and includes grapes, plums, a pineapple, peonies, asters, roses, narcissi and others. Largely self-taught, Bartholomew worked for the lithographer Charles Hullmandel from 1821 to 1827. He executed a flower-piece for Hullmandel, and in 1826 exhibited a similar work at the Royal Academy. He was a member of the New Watercolour Society in 1834 and 1835, and was elected A.O.W.S. in 1835. He was appointed Flower Painter to the Duchess of Kent in 1836, and Flower Painter in Ordinary to The Queen in 1837.
These images were later published as Baxter-prints, in 1856-57 (see Courtney Lewis George Baxter nos.275-6). (2)
Hollyhocks
pencil and watercolour heightened with white
28½ x 21in. (725 x 530mm).
[With:]
The Gardener's Shed
signed and dated 1839 on the stretcher
pencil and watercolour heightened with white
25½ x 21in. (650 x 535mm).
A fine pair of flower paintings, both framed and glazed, by the 'Flower Painter in Ordinary' to Queen Victoria. The flowers depicted in the first are all hollyhocks: a single pink, and a yellow and deep purple double-flowered variety. The second is more wide-ranging in its subject matter and includes grapes, plums, a pineapple, peonies, asters, roses, narcissi and others. Largely self-taught, Bartholomew worked for the lithographer Charles Hullmandel from 1821 to 1827. He executed a flower-piece for Hullmandel, and in 1826 exhibited a similar work at the Royal Academy. He was a member of the New Watercolour Society in 1834 and 1835, and was elected A.O.W.S. in 1835. He was appointed Flower Painter to the Duchess of Kent in 1836, and Flower Painter in Ordinary to The Queen in 1837.
These images were later published as Baxter-prints, in 1856-57 (see Courtney Lewis George Baxter nos.275-6). (2)
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