Samuel Palmer. O.W.S. (1805-1881)

Details

Samuel Palmer. O.W.S. (1805-1881)

Evening: A Cottager returning Home greeted by his Children

pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour
7½ x 16 1/8in. (189 x 411mm.)

Provenance

Sold Christie's, 23 April 1910, lot 85 ( .... gns to Permain)
J. Rous-Summers
Leger Galleries Ltd., 1974
?sold Phillips, 21 June 1976, lot 95
Christie's, 20 March 1984, lot 104, repr. in colour, bt. in

Literature

R. Lister, Samuel Palmer: His Life and Art, Cambridge 1987, pp. 156-7
R. Lister, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Samuel Palmer, Cambridge 1988, pp. 155-6, no. 428, repr.

Exhibited

London, Leger Galleries Ltd., Early English Watercolours, November-December 1974, no. 12, repr.

Lot Essay

This watercolour is dated c. 1848 by Lister (1988, loc. cit.). It is in Palmer's typical 'little long' format and is a typical portrayal of the artist's idealised vision of country life, also found in such works as The Cottager's Return of c. 1833 (Lister 1988, no. 162) and The Herdsman's Cottage etching of 1850

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