Attributed to Michael Frederick Halliday (1822-1869)
Winding Wool
Gouache, watercolour and bodycolour
18 ½ x 13 ¼ inches
£6,500
This picture ticks every fashionable artistic box of the 1890s: The Celtic revival, blue and white pottery, Arts and Crafts jewellery, Byzantine decoration, Pre-Raphaelitism, as well as spinning, Queen Victoria's hobby after Prince Albert died. It also nods to the work of both Burne-Jones and Simeon Solomon.