The Ebb and Flow of Life

Details

Alexander Hohenlohe Burr (1835-1899)
The Ebb and Flow of Life
signed and dated 'A Burr./85' (lower left) and further signed and inscribed 'The Ebb and Flow of Life (A.H. Burr)/John Henderson Esq./Towerville./Helensburgh.' (on a label on the reverse)
oil on canvas
34¼ x 26¼ in. (87.5 x 67 cm.)

Provenance

John Henderson Esq.

Exhibited

Glasgow, Royal Glasgow Institute, 1888, no. 737 (lent by John Henderson Esq.)

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Alexander Burr was one of the group of painters who had been a pupil of Robert Scott Lauder at the Trustees' Academy between 1852 and 1861. Their tutor had encouraged them to create their own discipline on the basis of observation and although they did not represent any radical break with the past, they were a dominant force within the flourishing Scottish art world in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Alexander, with his brother John, were amongst some members to move to London in the 1860s but they retained their stylistic links with the works of Thomas Faed and Erskine Nicol, or the early paintings of McTaggart and Chalmers.

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