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Portrait of a Lady Sewing - British 19th century art Newlyn School oil paintingCirca 1890
Circa 1890
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This beautiful late 19th century portrait oil painting is attributed to circle of Walter Langley. It has the hallmarks of the Newlyn School of artists such as the subject matter, composition, brushwork and muted green tones of the Cornish artists. The painting, circa 1890 is a three quarter length portrait of a seated elderly lady. She is sat sewing under the light of a window. She is clothed in the muted Cornish palette so popular with the Newlyn School like Walter Langley and Frank Bramley. A really lovely 19th century portrait oil painting.
Provenance. Scottish estate.
Condition. Oil on canvas, 36 inches by 28 inches unframed and in good condition.
Frame. Housed in a gilt acanthus leaf frame, 44 inches by 36 inches framed and in good condition.
Walter Langley (1852-1922) was an English painter and founder of the Newlyn School of plein air artists. He was born in Birmingham and his father was a journeyman tailor. At 15 he was apprenticed to a lithographer. At 21 he won a scholarship to South Kensington and he studied designing there for two years. The sometimes highly ornate work is mainly in gold and silver and in a Renaissance style. He returned to Birmingham but took up painting full-time, and in 1881 was elected an Associate of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA). In the same year he was offered £500 for a year's work by a Mr Thrupp (a Birmingham photographer). With this money he and his family moved to Newlyn where he was one of the first artists to settle and began recording the life of the fishing community. Politically left wing for his era, he was noted for his social realist portrayals of working class figures, particularly fishermen and their families. He was a supporter of Charles Bradlaugh, a radical socialist politician. His own working-class background enabled him to identify with the villagers and the hardships they endured, many of his paintings reflect this sympathy with the working-class fisher-folk amongst whom he lived. One of the best known works is the watercolour For Men Must Work and Women Must Weep (1883; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery) based on Charles Kingsley's poem The Three Fishers (1851). Another is Between The Tides (1901; Warrington Museum & Art Gallery). News of the missing was shown at the Royal Academy in 1884 and sold to an unnamed buyer for £250. Although one of the first to settle in the Newlyn artists' colony Newlyn School, Langley initially benefited little from its growing fame, partly because of his working-class origins and partly because until 1892 he painted largely in watercolour rather than the more prestigious medium of oils. His early training in lithography gives his paintings a detail and texture that show his technical skills. In 1884, Langley was elected a member of the RBSA and continued to exhibit widely throughout the UK and abroad. Later in his career his reputation grew. One of Langley's paintings was singled out as "a beautiful and true work of art" by Leo Tolstoy in his book What is Art?, while in 1895 Langley was invited by the Uffizi to contribute a self-portrait to hang alongside those of Raphael, Rubens and Rembrandt in their collection of portraits of great artists. Today his work is considered "vital to the image of the Newlyn School" and "alongside Stanhope Forbes ... the most consistent in style and substantial in output".
- Creation Year:Circa 1890
- Dimensions:Height: 44 in (111.76 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Circle Of:Walter Langley (1852-1922, British)
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU853113061352
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