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Lot 144*

Helen Allingham, RWS
(British, 1848-1926)
Through the corn, Downton, Wilts unframed

28 October 2009, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Helen Allingham, RWS (British, 1848-1926)

Through the corn, Downton, Wilts
signed 'H.Allingham' (lower left), inscribed 'Cornfield at Downton, near Salisbury' in pencil on reverse; also incribed 'Wiltshire Downs' in ink and '6 5/8 x 9 ins/ Downton Wiltshire' in pencil to mount
watercolour heightened with touches of scratching out
24 x 18cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/16in).
unframed

Footnotes

PROVENANCE:
with M. Newman, Esq;
Private collection.

LITERATURE:
Helen Allingham and Stewart Dick, The Cottage Homes of England, Edward Arnold, (London, 1909), ill. pl. 62, opp p. 224.

During the early years of the 20th century Helen Allingham visited Salisbury and painted in and around Downton, a market town with a thriving tanning industry. Most of her paintings resulting from these excursions were of thatched buildings, three of which were reproduced in The Cottage Homes of England, together with this one landscape. The view is from Barford Down across to Clearbury Rings, being the highest and most historically important hill in the area.

By this stage in her career, the artist's ever-popular work was admired by both the King and Queen Mary, when they attended a private view at The Fine Art Society in 1908.

We are grateful to Annabel Watts for her kind assistance in preparing the above catalogue entries.

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