Brow Street Chapel, Maryport

Details

Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976)
Brow Street Chapel, Maryport
signed and dated 'L S Lowry 1956' (lower right)
pencil
9¾ x 13½ in. (24.7 x 34.3 cm.)

Provenance

Gifted by the artist to Reverend Geoffrey Bennett, by whom gifted to the present owner's father.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Lowry and Geoffrey Bennett met in 1926 when Bennett worked as a clerk with Lowry's cousin, Grace Shephard, at the London and County Westminster Bank in Manchester. When Bennett married and moved to Cumbria, Lowry would visit regularly. Bennett was ordinated into the Anglican Church in 1962 and become known to Lowry as the 'Reverend Gentleman'. When Lowry died in 1976, Reverend Bennett conducted the funeral service. In 1995, Christie's sold a collection of works from Geoffrey Bennett's estate.

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