Paintings - 19th March 2014
Lot 153
Samuel Woodforde R.A. (1763-1817) A Country Girl Signed and dated 1809 Oil on canvas 76 x 64cm;...
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Description
Samuel Woodforde R.A. (1763-1817)
A Country Girl
Signed and dated 1809
Oil on canvas
76 x 64cm; 30 x 25in
Provenance:
Private collection, West Country
Exhibited:
Possibly Royal Academy 1811, no 431
The artist was born at Castle Cary, Somerset in 1763. He became a full member of the Royal Academy in 1807 and exhibited 133 pictures. He married Jane Gardner in 1815 and that year left for Italy, but died 2 years later of fever in Bologna, where he is buried.