Sidney Harold Meteyard (1868-1947)

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Sidney Harold Meteyard (1868-1947)
"But in peace hung over her sweet Basil
evermore and moisten'd it with tears"
inscribed as title; pencil and watercolour with touches of white heightening, unframed
8 x 6in.
Literature
The Last Romantics, Barbican Art Gallery, 1991, no. 84

Lot Essay

An Illustration to Keats' Isabella and the Pot of Basil. Meteyard also illustrated Longfellow's The Golden Legend, 1910, and painted under the influence of Burne-Jones. A Birmingham School artist, he also painted in oil and tempera and designed for stained glass.

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