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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