Lot Essay
Painted while the artist was living at Abinger Hammer in Surrey, this is probably a view on the Tilling Bourne.
Edward Wilkins Waite was born into an artistic family in Leatherhead, Surry, in 1854. He was the son of a Congregationalist minister, who was an amateur watercolourist, and the grandson of the miniaturist and illustrator William Watkin Waite.
Waite exhibited extensively from 1876; not only in this country but as far afield as Cape Town, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Paris and Zurich. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1878; between then and 1919 exhibiting forty six works.
Waite became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1893. Major exhibitions of his work have been held at Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, in 1983 and at Guildford House Gallery, Guildford in 1986.
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Edward Wilkins Waite (1854-1924)
Details
Edward Wilkins Waite (1854-1924)
"Where spreading Hawthorn brightly blooms"
Burns
signed and dated 'Edward Waite 1894'; oil on canvas
36 x 50in. (91.5 x 127cm.)
"Where spreading Hawthorn brightly blooms"
Burns
signed and dated 'Edward Waite 1894'; oil on canvas
36 x 50in. (91.5 x 127cm.)
Provenance
Purchased by Mr Burrow at the New Gallery exhibition for (90
Exhibited
London, New Gallery, 1895, no.19