Lot 72
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Sir Samuel Henry William Llewellyn, P.R.A. (1858-1941)
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Sir Samuel Henry William Llewellyn, P.R.A. (1858-1941)

Waterbaby

Details
Sir Samuel Henry William Llewellyn, P.R.A. (1858-1941)
Waterbaby
signed 'W. Llewellyn' (lower left) and further signed and dated 'W. Llewellyn./1902.' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
24¾ x 18¾ in. (63 x 47.6 cm.)
Provenance
Mrs Berkeley Jamison (according to a label attached to the picture).
Mrs John Murray; Christie's, London, 1 March 1929, lot 147 (17 gns to Rochins).
Exhibited
London, The New Gallery, 15th Summer Exhibition, 1902, no. 32.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Llewellyn was principally a painter of portraits and landscapes who painted the state portrait of Queen Mary in 1910, and was President of the Royal Academy between 1928 and 1938. He exhibited widely at Suffolk Street, the New Watercolour Society, the Grosvenor Gallery and the New English Art Club. The present work was no doubt inspired by Charles Kingsley's novel The Water Babies of 1863.

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