£2,400
WILLIAM LIONEL WYLLIE RA RE (BRITISH 1851-1931)
BLOSSOMS (THE MEDWAY) 1902
Oil on canvas, signed lower right, 61 x 91.5cm (24 x 36") in ornate exhibition frame
Provenance: The artist's family, thence by descent
Exhibited: Corporation of Manchester, n.d.
'On June 1st, 1902, came the happy news that peace was proclaimed with the Boers. Our anxiety was great...Sunday dawned a beautiful day...the trees were laden with blossom in what we knew as 'Blackberry Square'...a most peaceful scene, with a little peep of the river in the distance.'
From We Were One, A Life of WL Wyllie, London, 1935
Fair condition. Some blistering to sky and foreground right, and some minor losses to sky and foreground right. Stretcher marks. Some minor cracking, possibly consistent with having been rolled. Examined under UV
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