Glyn Warren Philpot, R.A. (1884-1937)

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Glyn Warren Philpot, R.A. (1884-1937)

'Early Painting'

signed with initials lower right GWP, oil on canvas-board
7½ x 9 3/8in. (19 x 23.8cm.)

Provenance

Sold by the artist's family in the Leicester Galleries exhibition, 1944
Edward Le Bas, C.B.E., R.A., by whom purchased at the 1944 exhibition; (+) Christie's, 3 March 1978, lot 165 (#550)

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture by Glyn W. Philpot, R.A., Sept.-Oct. 1944, no.87
London, Royal Academy, A Painter's Collection, 1963, no.149

Lot Essay

Always known simply as 'Early Painting', the present picture was regarded by Daisy Philpot, the artist's sister, as a very early work and was dated in the 1944 exhibition catalogue 'about 1902 - age 17'. On stylistic grounds a dating later in the decade is preferable and it is tempting to surmise that, if the object held by the clothed youth is a bow, the picture may be 'Peace and War' exhibited at the New English Art Club in the winter of 1906, no.47

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