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Spring Lane on a Summer Afternoon
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Helen Layfield Bradley (1900-1979)
Spring Lane on a Summer Afternoon
signed with a fly (lower left), signed, inscribed and dated 'Spring Lane on a Summer Afternoon-/Every fine afternoon, Grandma and the three aunts/called for Mother, George and I (and the dogs, Gyp &/Barney) to go for our walk along Spring Lane towards/the Cemetery. We meet Mr Taylor, The Bank Manager/who is shaking hands with Grandma. Aunt/Charlotte, the youngest aunt is very shy. She has/blushed pink. Mother sees Miss Carter (who wore/pink) coming along. She isn't wearing her/smartest dress and is feeling very cross/about it. Miss Maitland and her mother have/stopped to speak to young Albert Green, the/new curate, and the year was 1908./Helen Layfield Bradley/1967' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas-board
18 x 26 in. (45.8 x 66.1 cm.)
Spring Lane on a Summer Afternoon
signed with a fly (lower left), signed, inscribed and dated 'Spring Lane on a Summer Afternoon-/Every fine afternoon, Grandma and the three aunts/called for Mother, George and I (and the dogs, Gyp &/Barney) to go for our walk along Spring Lane towards/the Cemetery. We meet Mr Taylor, The Bank Manager/who is shaking hands with Grandma. Aunt/Charlotte, the youngest aunt is very shy. She has/blushed pink. Mother sees Miss Carter (who wore/pink) coming along. She isn't wearing her/smartest dress and is feeling very cross/about it. Miss Maitland and her mother have/stopped to speak to young Albert Green, the/new curate, and the year was 1908./Helen Layfield Bradley/1967' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas-board
18 x 26 in. (45.8 x 66.1 cm.)
Provenance
with Mercury Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner's uncle, 18th August 1967.
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