ELEANOR FORTESCUE BRICKDALE, R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1871-1945)
ELEANOR FORTESCUE BRICKDALE, R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1871-1945)
ELEANOR FORTESCUE BRICKDALE, R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1871-1945)
ELEANOR FORTESCUE BRICKDALE, R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1871-1945)
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ELEANOR FORTESCUE BRICKDALE, R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1871-1945)

Evelyn Hope

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ELEANOR FORTESCUE BRICKDALE, R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1871-1945)
Evelyn Hope
signed with the artist's initials 'EFB' (lower right, on the cartouche)
watercolor heightened with bodycolor on board, in the original artist's frame
14 ½ x 10 ½ in. (36.8 x 26.7 cm.)
Executed in 1908.
來源
The artist.
with Dowdeswell & Dowdeswell, London, acquired directly from the above, by June 1909.
Their sale; Christie's, London, 7 February 1917, lot 31, as "Evelyn Hope": Robert Browning.
with W. Lawson Peacock, and Co., London, acquired at the above sale.
Their sale; Christie's, London, 14 November 1921, as part of lot 162.
Matthews, acquired at the above sale.
Wilfred J. Sharpe (1880-1945), Manor House, Maidstone, Kent.
His estate sale; Christie's, London, 31 January 1947, as part of lot 2.
with Dent, acquired at the above sale.
Private collection, California.
By descent to the present owner.
出版
R. Browning, Pippa Passes & Men and Women, London, 1909, p. 65, illustrated with a lithograph.
展覽
London, Dowdeswell Galleries, The Poems of Robert Browning, etc., by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, A.R.W.S., June 1909, no. 12.
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Fortieth Autumn Exhibition of Modern Art, no. 502.

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Laura H. Mathis
Laura H. Mathis VP, Specialist, Head of Sale

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Robert Browning's lyric poem Evelyn Hope was first published in Men and Women in 1855, and the present watercolor was used to illustrate an edition published in 1909. It narrates the story of the death of its young heroine, from the point of view of a highly optimistic narrator, who seeks to find hope in the situation. The poem begins:

'Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead!
Sit and watch by her side an hour.
That is her book-shelf, this her bed;
She plucked that piece of geranium-flower,
Beginning to die too, in the glass;
Little has yet been changed, I think:
The shutters are shut, no light may pass
Save two long rays thro' the hinge's chink.'

Brickdale portrays Evelyn outside a grand house, holding the geranium she has just picked. She portrays her as a beautiful, lively young women, with no sense of the tragedy to come, sharing some of the narrator's optimism.

We are grateful to Pamela Gerrish Nunn for confirming the authenticity of this work on the basis of a photograph and her contribution to the cataloguing.

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