Arthur Hughes (British, 1832-1915)

The old Neighbour gone before: a Street Episode in Brittany

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Arthur Hughes (British, 1832-1915)
The old Neighbour gone before: a Street Episode in Brittany
signed 'Arthur Hughes' (lower right) and signed and inscribed 'No 2. The Departure of a Neighbour/Brittany/Arthur Hughes/2 Finboro Road/Fulham Road/S.W.' on an old label on the reverse
oil on canvas
30½ x 44.5/8 in. (77.5 x 113.3 cm.)
Painted in 1878-79

Provenance

George H. Powell by 1886.

Literature

The Times, 2 June 1879, p. 5.
E. Chesnau, La Peinture Anglaise, Paris, 1882, p. 201.
G.H. Shepherd, A Short History of the British School of Painting, 1881, p. 148.
E. Chesnau, 'Peintures Anglais Contemporains' in L'Art, 1894, p. 399. L. Roberts, Arthur Hughes - His Life and Works, Woodbridge, 1997, no. 160 (illustrated p. 190).

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1879, no. 1366.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle Autumn, 1879, no. 401.
London, St Jude's Whitechapel, Whitechapel Fine Art Exhibition, 1886, no. 91.

Lot Essay

The artist, in a letter to Ernest Chesneau dated 2 May 188[2], expresses gratitude for his proposed inclusion in Chesneau's forthcoming survey of important British artists, and he goes on to list the present work as amongst 'my chief pictures' (Roberts, op. cit., p. 285).

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