Scottish Art
Scottish Art
Edward Atkinson Hornel
A Spring Roundelay
Lot Closed
November 22, 01:29 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Edward Atkinson Hornel
1864 - 1933
A Spring Roundelay
signed E A Hornel and dated 1910 (lower left)
oil on canvas
unframed: 77 by 107.5cm.; 30¼ by 42¼in.
framed: 95 by 125cm.; 37¼ by 49¼in.
Executed in 1910.
W.B. Dickie
Sale, Christie's London, 9 June 1978, lot 171
Ian MacNicol, Glasgow, where acquired and thence by family descent to the present owners
The present work is a version of A Springtime Roundelay which was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1911 and fully illustrated in the accompanying catalogue. When the King and Queen visited the exhibition they returned repeatedly to admire Hornel's painting with the press at the time exclaiming, "Everybody who admires pictures should have a Hornel in their Home." The Royal Academy picture now resides in the collection of Glasgow Museums.
The present work is almost identical in its composition and retains an impressive scale. It is also rendered in Hornel's unique painterly style with the paint laid down in a patterned tapestry of brush marks.