Alfred William Hunt (1830-1896)
Climbing Shadows
Sir Frank Dicksee (1853-1928)
Walsham Meads
Oil on canvas; signed and inscribed with title on the back
12 ¼ x 24 inches
POA
Provenance
Henry Paul Treeby, and thence by descent from 1935
Literature
Simon Toll, Frank Dicksee, AAC Art Books, 2016, no FD1876.3, p 220, ill p 31
Dicksee painted this on the banks of the River Wey in Surrey, near Walsham, close by Pyrford Lock. It is similar to A Surrey Landscape in the National Museum of Wales, which he painted two years later. Notwithstanding his grand portraiture and the large Academy set-pieces of expiring vikings and knights in armour, Dicksee also painted quieter, modest landscapes in the open air, with a Barbizon quality.
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