William Kay Blacklock (1872-1924) - portrait of a young girl...

Hammer

£170

William Kay Blacklock (1872-1924) - portrait of a young girl, seated three quarter length wearing a cream dress and holding a blue ribbon, a sunlit meadow beyond, signed and dated 1908, pencil and watercolour, 16.5" x 12.5"
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** Attached to the reverse of the picture is the original backing board bearing the indistinct details where the exhibition was shown.
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** The artist was born in Sunderland, and worked as a lithographer's apprentice whilst living with his widowed mother. He continued practising the trade of lithography and printing, but became a watercolourist and painter in oils. Exhibiting works at The Royal Academy between 1897-1918. His wife Nellie modelled for him as did their daughter Elenore. He visited Walberswick in 1914 but later moved to St. Ives in Cambridgeshire he died in Polperro and is buried in the civil parish of Liskeard.
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*** The picture is sold together with the original invoice dated, June 1989 from the Wren Gallery of Burford, Oxfordshire, the original price being £2,200, and was described as being titled “Lydia” 

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This is in good condition throughout, has good colour and is contained within a 1980s wash line and gilded inner mount with outer cream mount and plain outer gilt plaster frame.