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PROVENANCE:
with M Newman Ltd., London
Private collection, UK
LITERATURE:
Advertisement in Apollo magazine, December 1947 as 'The Cottage by the Wood'
The name Helen Allingham will always be associated with paintings of Surrey cottages and farmhouses, however there is more to her paintings than meets the eye. They represent her concern for the future of the English countryside which was a topical subject at the time.
It is likely that her friend and Surrey neighbour, Gertrude Jekyll, took the artist to see this 17th century cottage. Miss Jekyll wrote about, and recorded through her photographs, once common sights around her Godalming home. Her work was published in 1904 under the title 'Old West Surrey'. This cottage appeared in a photograph taken by Miss Jekyll in 1888 and it still stands in a remote part of Dunsfold.
We are grateful to Annabel Watts for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.