Algernon Talmage, Robin Feild, A.K. Browning and Edith Leppard on a summer's afternoon at Bossinney Court, Cornwall

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THOMAS CANTRELL DUGDALE (BRITISH, 1880-1952)
Algernon Talmage, Robin Feild, A.K. Browning and Edith Leppard on a summer's afternoon at Bossinney Court, Cornwall
signed 'T.C DUGDALE' (lower right)
oil on canvas
28 x 36 in. (71.1 x 91.5 cm. )

Provenance

Major B. Boswell, Old Hall, Seething, Norfolk, by 1948.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 November 1989, lot 128, where purchased by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

This captivating summer scene was painted at Bossinney Court near Tintagel in Cornwall, around 1920-1, when the house was let to the artist Algernon Talmage, seated on the right of the picture. A copy of a letter to Major Boswell from Dugdale attached to the reverse of the painting lists the other sitters as: Robin Feild (standing); the artist's wife, A.K. Browning, herself an artist (in the centre); and Edith Leppard, Talmage's then Housekeeper/Secretary (on the left, holding the teapot).

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