Walter Langley English, 1852-1922
Motherless, 1895
Oil on canvas
48 x 60.5 ins
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Painting first sold in 1896 for 'a3260.par
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Frame size 135 x 167cmlang1033f0par
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The model for grandma was Grace Warren.par
Painting first sold in 1896 for 'a3260.par
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Frame size 135 x 167cmlang1033f0par
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Provenance
Bought at Sothebys, New York in poor state and restored in London. Thought to have been lost. Exhibited at RA in 1895, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool 1895, Item in Cornish Telepgraph April 4, 1895. Royal Birmingham Soc. Artists, 1899. Sold Davis 1896 for £260. Exhibited Liverpool 1895 Royal Academy, London, 1895 Cornish newspaper during exhibition in Penlee, July 2011.Exhibitions
Penlee Gallery, Penzance, The Brotherhood of the Palette, from 20th June to 12th Sept 2009. Penlee Gallery, Walter Langley and Birmingham Boys, from 11 June to 10 Sept 2011.