Home Territory

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Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935)
Home Territory
signed and dated 'A. Thorburn/1926' (lower left)
pencil, watercolour and gum arabic heightened with bodycolour
21 3/8 x 30¼ in. (51.3 x 77 cm.)

Provenance

with W.F. Embleton, London.

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Sale room notice

Please note the provenance on this lot has been incorrectly added to lot 43 and should read Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Gleneagles, 30 August 2000, lot 1054.

Lot Essay

'In 1919 Baird-Carter, Thorburn's dealer died and was succeeded by William Fraser Embleton, already known to Thorburn, for he had been apprenticed to Baird-Carter and later became his assistant. Embleton and Thorburn were to become good friends as well as successful business associates. Each fortnight Embleton would journey to Hascombe to spend the day with Thorburn and return with finished watercolours, commissions for waiting clients. Embleton was one of the favoured few
allowed to sit and watch Thorburn painting, normally the studio was out of bounds to all but his wife and a handful of his closest friends. Embleton however, on his fortnightly visits, would sit behind Thorburn's left shoulder and watch the master at work.' (J. Southern, Thorburn's Birds and Mammals, London, 1986, p. 16).

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