The writing lesson

Details

Daniel Maclise, R.A. (1806-1870)
The writing lesson
pencil and watercolour
4¾ x 4 3/8 in. (12 x 11.1 cm.); and a subsidiary study for the head of the woman (on the reverse)

Provenance

with Anthony Reed, London.

Literature

G. Bauer, Le Siècle d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise, Anthèse, 1998, p. 129, pl. 174, illustrated in colour.
W. Hauptman, L'Âge d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise 1770-1900, Lausanne, 1999, p. 170, no. 110, illustrated in colour.

Exhibited

London, Anthony Reed, 1983, no. 33.
Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, L'Âge d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise 1770-1900, 22 January - 24 May 1999, no. 110.

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Lot Essay

In the 1830s Maclise worked for Fraser's Magazine as an illustrator under the pseudonym 'Alfred Croquis' (in French croquis means sketch). He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1840, and was subsequently offered presidency of the Academy and a knighthood, both of which he turned down.

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