Old Masters, British & European Paintings - Day 1 - 1st March 2022

Lot 264

Helen Allingham RWS (1848-1926)

Estimate £7,000 - £10,000 | Hammer £7000

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Description

Helen Allingham RWS (1848-1926)

The Clothes Basket

Signed and dated H.Allingham 1880 (lower left)

Pencil and watercolour

29.9 x 46cm; 11¾ x 18in

Provenance:

Sir George Johnson MD;

By descent to C. P. Johnson, Esq;

M. Newman Ltd, London;

Polak Gallery, London;

Sotheby's, London, 30 May 1985, lot 210;

Richard Hagen Gallery, Broadway, where purchased by the present private collector, 1985

Literature:

Marcus B. Huish, Happy England (A & C Black, 1903), p.63 (illustrated)

Exhibited:

London, Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, 95th Summer Exhibition, 1981, no.48;

London, St. Jude's School House, 1883, no.37 (lent by Sir George Johnson MD)

This watercolour was painted in 1880 from studies made on the Isle of Thanet, during a family holiday at Broadstairs in September 1879. It is held to be the first large landscape the artist exhibited.

We are grateful to Annabel Watts for her assistance cataloguing the present work.