Alfred Joseph Woolmer (1805-1892)

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Alfred Joseph Woolmer (1805-1892)

Dora

signed 'A.J. Woolmer' and signed 'A.J. Woolmer' and inscribed 'From Tennyson's "Dora"/And Dora took the child and went her way/Across the wheat, and sat upon a mound/that was unsown where many poppies grew/.../And made a little wreath of all the flowers/That grew about, and tied it round his hat/.../And the sun fell, and all the land was dark' on an old label on the reverse; oil on canvas
24¼ x 20½in. (61.6 x 52.1cm.)

來源

Mrs Round; Christie's, 8 December 1888, lot 41 (unsold at 10gns.)

展覽

London, Royal Society of British Artists, 1862, no.268 (¨36.15s)

拍品專文

An illustration to Tennyson's poem 'Dora', one of the 'English Idyls' published in his Poems of 1842. Dora is the niece of a farmer who has disinherited his son, William, for refusing to marry her. When William falls on hard times and dies, she defies her uncle and befriends his widow. Taking William's son, she sits with him in the wheatfield, hoping that the sight will melt the old man's heart and he will 'bless (the boy) for the sake of him that's gone'.