Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite and British Impressionist Art
Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite and British Impressionist Art
Property of a Gentleman
HERBERT JAMES DRAPER | Study of a Water-nymph for ‘Prospero Summoning Nymphs and Deities’
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July 11, 02:12 PM GMT
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Property of a Gentleman
HERBERT JAMES DRAPER
1863-1920
Study of a Water-nymph for ‘Prospero Summoning Nymphs and Deities’
titled and signed with initials l.r.; Study for Waternymph / for Ceiling at Draper’s/ HJD
black and white chalks on green-blue paper
63 by 47cm., 25 by 18½in.
The studio of the artist and thence to his daughter Miss Yvonne Draper and by further descent
Simon Toll, Herbert Draper 1863-1920 – A Life Study, 2003, p. 188 cat.no.HJD.113.xiii, illustrated p.112
London, Julian Hartnoll Gallery, A Third and Final Exhibition of Drawings by Herbert Draper (1864-1920), autumn 2003, no.15
In 1901 Draper was commissioned to paint the ceiling of the livery hall of the Draper Company in the City of London and over the following three years he painted ‘Prospero Summoning Nymphs and Deities’ for the nine-metre central oval. It depicts the magician of Shakespeare’s Tempest invoking the apparitions of a group of naiads from a waterfall and the goddesses Juno and Ceres.