Lot Essay
John Booth Higginson, like his father before him, is listed in the Trade Directories for Staffordshire as a "house painter and decorator."
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Details
JOHN BOOTH HIGGINSON*
Still life with a cheese in a cradle
Signed and dated on the reverse in pencil 'J.B. Higginson, Madeley, Staffs, 1869
oil on canvas
24 x 30in. (63 x 76cm.)
Still life with a cheese in a cradle
Signed and dated on the reverse in pencil 'J.B. Higginson, Madeley, Staffs, 1869
oil on canvas
24 x 30in. (63 x 76cm.)
Literature
J. Ayres, English Naive Painting, London, 1980, p. 72
J. Ayres, British Folk Art, Woodstock, NY, 1977, p. 104
J. Ayres, Two Hundred Years of English Naive Art 1700-1900, Alexandria, VA, 1996, no. 26, pp. 82-83 and 52 (detail)
J. Ayres, British Folk Art, Woodstock, NY, 1977, p. 104
J. Ayres, Two Hundred Years of English Naive Art 1700-1900, Alexandria, VA, 1996, no. 26, pp. 82-83 and 52 (detail)
Exhibited
See previous lot.