The Epps Door

Details

Walter Langley, R.I. (1852-1922)
The Epps Door
signed 'W.LANGLEY' (lower left)
oil on canvas
15¾ x 20 in. (40 x 50.8 cm.)
Executed in 1894

Provenance

The artist and thence by descent.

Literature

Roger Langley, Exhibition Catalogue, Walter Langley, Pioneer of the Newlyn Art Colony, 1997, p. 165.

Exhibited

Penzance, Penlee Gallery, 'Walter Langley, Pioneer of the Newlyn Art Colony', 1997/1998, no. 71.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Best known as a watercolourist, Langley did not regularly exhibit paintings in oils until 1892, two years before the present work was executed. The picture appears to have been unexhibited however, and the title derives from the Langley family. An Epps door is thought to be a colloquialism from Warwickshire, denoting a cottage half-door.

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