Edward Calvert (Appledore, Devon 1799-1883 Stoke Newington)

Iasius, the old Arcadian, teaching the Mysteries of Demeter

Details

Edward Calvert (Appledore, Devon 1799-1883 Stoke Newington)
Iasius, the old Arcadian, teaching the Mysteries of Demeter
signed with initials 'EC' (lower left)
oil on board
5½ x 9¾ in. (14 x 24.8 cm.)

Provenance

George Goyder (+); Christie's, London, 1 November 1997, lot 51.
C. Thomas Toppin.

Literature

S. Calvert, A Memoir of Edward Calvert, Artist by his Third Son, London, 1893, pp. 113-4 (reference to several versions of the composition).

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Please note the medium of this painting is oil on paper and not as stated in the catalogue.

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Lot Essay

Stylistically this small oil resembles a slightly larger oil on paper in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Pan and the Sacred Seats (E. Lister, Edward Calvert, 1962, pl. LIV). These works are typical of Calvert's late 'pagan' period when, after a tour of Greece in 1844, he associated the geographical Arcadia in the Peloponnese with the Arcadia of classical literature and art.

Samuel Calvert reports that his father painted 'the Old Arcadian several times in golden hues'. Another version of the present picture, belonged to Calvert and was exhibited at the Royal Academy, Winter 1893, no. 132, and is reproduced S. Calvert, loc.cit.

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