Lot 25
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Sir William Nicholson (1872-1949)
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Sir William Nicholson (1872-1949)

Downland landscape

Details
Sir William Nicholson (1872-1949)
Downland landscape
signed with initial '.N.' (lower left), inscribed 'Cawley's' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas-board
10½ x 16 in. (26.7 x 40.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1932
Provenance
with Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
L. Browse, William Nicholson, London, 1956, no. 218 as Downland Landscape, circa 1922.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Charles Bravington (1910-2000) developed an interest in the work of Sir William Nicholson while studying architecture with Kit Nicholson at Trinity College, Cambridge. Bravington went onto acquire many of Nicholson's pictures direct from galleries and the sale rooms throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Mr Cawley was the gardener at the artist's home in Sutton Veny, Wiltshire. The present work may have been intended for him, or given to him, when the house was sold the following year.

We are grateful to Patricia Reed for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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