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FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE LORD MATTHEWS (Lots 67-78) The following pictures come from the collection of the late Baron Matthews, who was elevated to the peerage in 1980. Victor Matthews (1919-1995) was Chief Executive Officer of Trafalgar House plc., which owned both the Cunard Steam Ship Company and the Ritz Hotel in London. He later became Chairman of Fleet Publishing International Holdings which owned the Express group of newspapers. His love of the turf was reflected in a group of sporting pictures (including a notable group of scenes of Newmarket) offered in the sale of Sporting Art at Christie's South Kensington on 5 June. Millais's pivotal work, Sisters, formed the centrepiece of the collection, and is offered in this sale as lot 9. These pictures are typical of the collecting tastes of the 1970s, and 1980s, when this collection was being formed, and many are fine examples of 'genre' painting. Achieving great public acclaim during their lifetimes, genre artists responded to a growth in interest for everyday domestic scenes depicted on an intimate, key-hole scale. Thackeray commented in 1843 that 'The heroic has been deposed; and our artists in place cultivate the... familiar. The younger painters are content to exercise their art on subjects far less exalted; a gentle sentiment, an agreeable, quiet incident, a tea table tragedy, or a bread-and-butter idyll'. Recurrent themes included childhood and social realism, appealing to the audience in a direct and highly emotive way.

Edward Ladell (1821-1886)

Black grapes, a peach, a plum, white currants, hazelnuts, a roemer and an ivory casket on a carpet on a marble ledge

Details

Edward Ladell (1821-1886)
Black grapes, a peach, a plum, white currants, hazelnuts, a roemer and an ivory casket on a carpet on a marble ledge
signed with monogram (lower left) and further signed and inscribed 'E. Ladell/Still Life' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas
14 x 12 in. (35.5 x 30.5 cm.)

Provenance

with Mandell's Gallery, Norwich.

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