ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE AUGUSTUS HOLMES R.B.A (fl. 1852-1911) oil on canvas - still life of primroses and violets in a vase, inscribed in pencil to the stretcher, `Primroses 1868, Geo. A. Holmes`, 38 x 30cms (oval)¦Provenance: Pembrokeshire deceased estate.¦Auctioneer`s Note: George Holmes mainly painted genre scenes depicting everyday rural life of farm labourers, cottage interiors etc. Still lives were not his mainstream, but we can compare this composition to a very similar work depicting a child smelling the scent of a vase of primroses and violets entitled with four line stanza:¦¦`But they who come mid frost and flood,¦Peeping from bank, or root of tree,¦The primrose and the violet-bud, ¦They are the dearest flowers to me.`¦¦This latter work, also painted in an oval format and similarly dated 1868, features a white porcelain vase with a near identical composition of flowers, and was sold at Christie`s South Kensington in 2002. Our work is unsigned on the canvas (he usually signs with initials) and may be a preliminary study for the Christie`s larger (45 x 56cms) work.¦Presentation & Condition: framed in a period, but replacement, gilt composition frame with original slip, glazed. Frame bears paper label inscribed `Ed. Holmes...`. Back has paper removed, paint beginning to crack at the base around the foot of the vase
ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE AUGUSTUS HOLMES R.B.A (fl. 1852-1911) oil on canvas - still life of primroses and violets in a vase, inscribed in pencil to the stretcher, `Primroses 1868, Geo. A. Holmes`, 38 x 30cms (oval)¦Provenance: Pembrokeshire deceased estate.¦Auctioneer`s Note: George Holmes mainly painted genre scenes depicting everyday rural life of farm labourers, cottage interiors etc. Still lives were not his mainstream, but we can compare this composition to a very similar work depicting a child smelling the scent of a vase of primroses and violets entitled with four line stanza:¦¦`But they who come mid frost and flood,¦Peeping from bank, or root of tree,¦The primrose and the violet-bud, ¦They are the dearest flowers to me.`¦¦This latter work, also painted in an oval format and similarly dated 1868, features a white porcelain vase with a near identical composition of flowers, and was sold at Christie`s South Kensington in 2002. Our work is unsigned on the canvas (he usually signs with initials) and may be a preliminary study for the Christie`s larger (45 x 56cms) work.¦Presentation & Condition: framed in a period, but replacement, gilt composition frame with original slip, glazed. Frame bears paper label inscribed `Ed. Holmes...`. Back has paper removed, paint beginning to crack at the base around the foot of the vase
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